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STATE EX REL. PUBLIC DISCLOSURE COMM. v. WEA

No. 74268-5, 74316-9.

130 P.3d 352 (2006)

130 Wash.2d 352

STATE of Washington ex rel. WASHINGTON STATE PUBLIC DISCLOSURE COMMISSION, Petitioner, v. WASHINGTON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, Appellant, Gary Davenport, Martha Lofgren, Walt Pierson, Susannah Simpson, and Tracy Wolcott, Petitioners, individually and on behalf of all other nonmembers similarly situated, v. Washington State Education Association, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

Decided March 16, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Attorney General's Office, Mr. David T. Wendel, Olympia, Steven T. O'Ban, Chad Allred, Ellis Li & McKinstry PLLC, Seattle, Attorney General's Office, Ms. Linda A. Dalton, Olympia, for Petitioner/Appellant.

Ms. Judith A. Lonnquist, Seattle, Ms. Harriet K. Strasberg, Attorney at Law, Olympia, WA Education Association, Ms. Aimee Strand Iverson, Federal Way, for Appellee/Respondent.

Donald E. Clocksin, Olympia, Robert H. Chanin, Bredhoff & Kaiser, PLLC, Richard B. Wilkof, National Educ. Ass'n, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae National Educ. Ass'n.

Russell Clayton Brooks, Bellevue, Deborah J. La Fetra, Sacramento, Pacific Legal Foundation, for Amicus Curiae Pacific Legal Foundation.

Edward Earl Younglove, III, Younglove Lyman & Coker PLLC, Olympia, Joaquin M. Hernandez, Seattle, for Amicus Curiae Wash. Federation of State Employees.

James D. Oswald, Law offices of James D. Oswald, Seattle, for Amicus Curiae Wash. State Labor Council.

IRELAND, J.*

¶ 1 In these consolidated cases, we review RCW 42.17.760, which governs a labor union's ability to use agency shop fees, the fees paid by educational employees who are not union members. Both cases stem from an Evergreen Freedom Foundation (Evergreen) complaint with the Public Disclosure Commission (PDC) that the Washington Educational Association (WEA) violated RCW 42.17.760...

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