INT'L UNION OF OPERATING ENGINEERS v. SCHIMEL

Nos. 16-3736 & 16-3834.

863 F.3d 674 (2017)

INTERNATIONAL UNION OF OPERATING ENGINEERS LOCAL 139 and International Union of Operating Engineers Local 420, Plaintiffs-Appellants/Cross-Appellees, v. Brad D. SCHIMEL and James R. Scott, Defendants-Appellees/ Cross-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 12, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen P. Berzon , Scott A. Kronland , Zoe Louise Palitz , Attorneys, Altshuler Berzon LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Luke N. Berg , Deputy Solicitor General, Misha Tseytlin , Ryan J. Walsh , Attorneys, Office of the Solicitor General, Madison, WI, for Defendants-Appellees.

Catherine L. Fisk , Attorney, UCI School of Law, Irvine, CA, for Amici Curiae Kate Andrias, Cynthia Estlund, Catherine L. Fisk, Sophia Z. Lee, Laura Weinrib.

Kenneth B. Elwood , Attorney, Rhame & Elwood, Portage, IN, Marc R. Poulos , Attorney, Indiana Illinois Iowa Foundation for Fair Contracting, Countryside, IL, for Amicus Curiae Northern Indiana Independent Contractors Group.

Richard M. Esenberg , Attorney, Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, Milwaukee, WI, for Amicus Curiae National Federation of Independent Business Small Business Legal Center.

William L. Messenger , Attorney, National Right To Work Legal Defense Foundation, Springfield, VA, for Amicus Curiae Anthony Arnold.

Before Flaum, Easterbrook, and Kanne, Circuit Judges.


The International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 139 and Local 420 ("IUOE"), challenged Wisconsin's right-to-work law. The district court determined that this Court's decision upholding Indiana's nearly-identical law, Sweeney v. Pence, 767 F.3d 654 (7th Cir. 2014), controlled in...

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