"[R]eading the tea leaves of Supreme Court dicta has never been a precondition to good faith reliance on governing law."
How later courts described this case
- "[R]eading the tea leaves of Supreme Court dicta has never been a precondition to good faith reliance on governing law."
- noting that “there is no indication that Janus intended to open the floodgates to retroactive monetary relief”
- “[T]he action in question, i.e., the forced deduction of agency fees from their paychecks and transfer to AFSCME, is not occurring. There is simply no controversy, let alone an immediate one, to warrant a declaratory judgment. Such a declaration would therefore be an impermissible advisory opinion.”
- detailing the Supreme Court’s path to ultimately overruling Abood
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
This record has no opinion text. It is a disposition such as a denial of certiorari, kept so the case can be found by name and citation.