LEHNERT v. FERRIS FACULTY ASSOCIATION-MEA-NEA

No. G 78-346.

643 F.Supp. 1306 (1986)

James P. LEHNERT, Elmer S. Junker, James E. Lindsey, Sam C. Peticolas, John R. Schauble, and Theodore D. Speerman, Plaintiffs, v. The FERRIS FACULTY ASSOCIATION-MEA-NEA, Michigan Education Association, National Education Association of the United States, the Board of Control of Ferris State College, S. Eugene Bychinsky, Robert L. Ewigleben, Earl D. Gabriel, Robert P. Gerholz, Fran Harris, Delbert D. Long, Robert C. Redman, Thomas P. Scholler, Patricia M. Short, and Steven L. Thomas, Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Michigan, S.D.

August 25, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond J. LaJeuenesse, Nat. Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, Springfield, Va., for plaintiffs.

Michael J. Schmedlen, Lansing, Mich., for defendants.


OPINION

ENSLEN, District Judge.

Plaintiffs bring this action under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983, 1985, 1986 claiming violations of rights secured to them by the first and fourteenth amendments to the United States Constitution. Jurisdiction is based on 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331 and 1343. Specifically, plaintiffs allege that they are required by state law to pay to the defendant unions an agency shop or service fee in lieu of union dues and that this agency...

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