POLK v. YEE

Nos. 20-17095, 20-55266.

36 F.4th 939 (2022)

Delores POLK; Scott Ungar; Heather Herrick; Lien Loi; Jolene Montoya; Peter Loi; Susan McKay, as individuals and representatives of the requested class, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Betty YEE, in her official capacity as State Controller of California; Service Employees International Union Local 2015, Defendants-Appellees. Alicia Quirarte, Plaintiff, and Nora Maya, an individual; Anh Le, an individual; Viet Le, an individual; Jose Diaz, an individual, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. United Domestic Workers of America, AFSCME Local 3930, a labor organization; Betty T. Yee, in her official capacity as State Controller of the State of California, Defendants-Appellees, Rob Bonta, in his official capacity as Attorney General of California, Intervenor-Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed June 8, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William L. Messenger (argued), Heidi E. Schneider , and Amanda K. Freeman , National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation Inc., Springfield, Virginia; Rebekah C. Millard , Mariah Gondeiro , Karin Sweigart , and Robert Alan Bouvatte, Jr. , Freedom Foundation, Olympia, Washington; for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Anthony O'Brien (argued), Jeffrey A. Rich , and Lara Haddad , Deputy Attorneys General; Anthony R. Hakl and Mark R. Beckington, Supervising Deputy Attorneys General; Thomas S. Patterson , Senior Assistant Attorney General; Rob Bonta , Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, Sacramento, California; for Defendants-Appellees Betty Yee and Rob Bonta.

Stacey M. Leyton (argued) and Scott A. Kronland , Altshuler Berzon LLP, San Francisco, California, for Defendants-Appellees Service Employees International Union Local 2015, and United Domestic Workers of America, AFSCME Local 3930.

Before: Richard A. Paez and Jacqueline H. Nguyen, Circuit Judges, and John R. Tunheim, District Judge.


OPINION

Appellants, Medicaid providers and former members of public-sector unions, challenge the district courts' dismissals of these two cases, which we consolidated on appeal. When appellants joined the unions, they authorized the California State Controller to deduct union dues from their Medicaid reimbursements...

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