Harris v. Quinn

Harris v. Quinn
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 21, 2014 Decided June 30, 2014
Full case name	Pamela Harris, et al., Petitioners v. Pat Quinn, Governor of Illinois, et al.
Docket no.	11-681
Citations	573 U.S. 616 (more) 134 S. Ct. 2618; 189 L. Ed. 2d 620
Case history
Prior	656 F.3d 692 (7th Cir. 2011); cert. granted, 570 U.S. 948 (2013).
Holding
The First Amendment prohibits the collection of an agency fee from Rehabilitation Program PAs who do not want to join or support the union
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan
Case opinions
Majority	Alito, joined by Roberts, Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas
Dissent	Kagan, joined by Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. I

Harris v. Quinn, 573 U.S. 616 (2014), is a US labor law case of the United States Supreme Court regarding provisions of Illinois state law that allowed a union security agreement. Since the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 prohibited the closed shop, states could still choose whether to allow unions to collect fees from non-union members since the collective agreements with the employer would still benefit non-union members. The Court decided 5–4 that Illinois's Public Labor Relations Act, which permitted the union security agreements, violated the First Amendment. A similar case was decided by the Court in 2018, Janus v AFSCME,^[1] overturning the Court's unanimous decision in Abood v. Detroit Board of Education (1977) which the appeals court had upheld in Harris.