LEHNERT v. FERRIS FACULTY ASSOCIATION - MEA-NEA

File No. G 87-346 CA1.

685 F.Supp. 164 (1987)

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.

June 17, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

National Right to Work Legal Foundation, Inc., Springfield, Va., by Raymond J. LaJeunesse, Jr., and Allaben, Massie, Vander Weyden & Timmer, and Sam F. Massie, Jr., Grand Rapids, Mich., for plaintiffs.

Mika, Myers, Beckett & Jones by Steven L. Dykema, Grand Rapids, Mich., for Non Union defendants.

White, Beekman, Przybylowicz, Schneider & Baird, P.C. by Arthur R. Przybylowicz, Okemos, Mich., for Union defendants.


OPINION

ENSLEN, District Judge.

In 1978 plaintiffs filed their complaint alleging violations of 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983, 1985 and 1986. Plaintiffs alleged that they were required by state law to pay to defendants Ferry Faculty Association ("Unions") an agency shop fee in lieu of Union dues and that this fee was not applied by the Unions exclusively to purposes germane to their duties as collective bargaining representative for the bargaining unit. Plaintiffs...

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