ROBINSON v. STATE OF N.J.

Civ. A. Nos. 82-1118, 82-1119 and 82-3443.

565 F.Supp. 942 (1983)

Paul H. ROBINSON, et al., Plaintiffs, v. STATE OF NEW JERSEY, Thomas H. Kean, Governor, et al., Defendants. Joseph W. ANTONACCI, et al., Plaintiffs, v. STATE OF NEW JERSEY, Thomas H. Kean, Governor, et al., Defendants. Allen OLSEN, et al., Plaintiffs, v. COMMUNICATIONS WORKERS OF AMERICA (CWA), et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. New Jersey.

June 15, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry A. Stein, Jeffry A. Mintz, Stein & Shapiro, Medford, N.J., Nelson Kieff, Nat. Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, Inc., Springfield, Va., Jeffrey Cooper, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiffs.

Irwin I. Kimmelman, Atty. Gen. of N.J. by Eugene J. Sullivan, Asst. Atty. Gen., Alfred E. Ramey, Jr., Deputy Atty. Gen., Trenton, N.J., for defendant, Thomas H. Kean, Governor, State of N.J.

Sidney H. Lehmann, Gen. Counsel, Robert E. Anderson, Jr., Deputy Gen. Counsel, Public Employment Relations Com'n, Trenton, N.J., for defendant James W. Mastriani, Chairman, Public Employment Relations Com'n.

Edward Ryan, Carpenter, Bennett & Morrissey, Newark, N.J., for defendant Rutgers University.

Mark D. Schorr, Trenton, N.J., Reinhardt & Schachter, P.C. by Paul Schachter, Newark, N.J., for defendants Rutgers Council of American Ass'n of University Professors Chapters, Sandra Walther, Richard Peskin and Richard Laity.

Cassel R. Ruhlman, Jr., Ruhlman & Butrym, Pennington, N.J., Robert H. Chanin, James J. Brudney, Bredhof & Kaiser, Washington, D.C., for defendant New Jersey Educ. Ass'n.

Steven P. Weissman, CWA Dist. 1, Trenton, N.J., James B. Coppess, Adair & Goldthwaite, Washington, D.C., Michael T. Leibig, Zwerdling, Schlossberg, Leibig & Kahn, Washington, D.C., Sidney Reitman, Reitman, Parsonnet, Maisel & Duggan, Newark, N.J., for Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO, CWA Dist. 1, and Locals 1031, 1032, 1033, 1034, 1037, 1038, 1039, and 1040; Laurence Gold, AFL-CIO, Washington, D.C., of counsel.


OPINION

DEBEVOISE, District Judge.

Plaintiffs in these three cases challenge the constitutionality of the provisions of the New Jersey Employer-Employee Relations Act, N.J.S.A. 34:13A-1 et seq. (the Act), which permit public employers to withhold and majority union representatives to receive representation fees assessed against employees who are not members of the union. It is now necessary to determine whether additional preliminary injunctive relief must...

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