IOWA STATE EDUC. ASSOCIATION v. STATE

No. 17-1834.

928 N.W.2d 11 (2019)

IOWA STATE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION and Davenport Education Association, Appellants, v. STATE of Iowa, Iowa Public Employment Relations Board, Mike Cormack, Jamie Van Fossen, and Mary Gannon, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Filed May 17, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alice O'Brien and Lubna A. Alam of the National Education Association, Washington, D.C.; Becky S. Knutson of Davis, Brown, Koehn, Shors & Roberts, P.C., Des Moines; and Jeremiah A. Collins of Bredhoff & Kaiser P.L.L.C., Washington, D.C., for appellants.

Matthew C. McDermott , Michael R. Reck , Kelsey J. Knowles , and Espnola F. Cartmill of Belin McCormick, P.C., Des Moines, for appellees.

Jay M. Smith of Smith & McElwain Law Office, Sioux City, for amici curiae Iowa Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO; Communications Workers of America; and International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 234.

Adam D. Zenor of Grefe & Sidney, P.L.C., Des Moines, and Frank D. Garrison of National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, Springfield, Virginia, for amicus curiae Kevin Rohne.


This appeal, submitted with AFSCME Iowa Council 61 v. State, 928 N.W.2d 21 (Iowa 2019), also filed today, presents constitutional challenges to the 2017 amendments to Iowa Code chapter 20, the Public Employment Relations Act (PERA). The amendments ended payroll deductions for union dues and narrowed the scope of mandatory...

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