{"id":1941,"date":"2020-01-13T09:31:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T14:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uuphost.org\/cobleskill\/?p=1941"},"modified":"2020-01-13T09:31:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T14:31:40","slug":"good-news-from-the-federal-courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/cobleskill\/?p=1941","title":{"rendered":"Good News from the Federal Courts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #201f1e; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Dear Colleagues,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #201f1e; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Great news! I am pleased to inform you that the federal district court has issued a decision dismissing the case in <u><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\">Seidemann, et al. v. Professional Staff Congress, et al.<\/span><\/u><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> in its entirety.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #201f1e; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This case was a post-<u><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma;\">Janus<\/span><\/u><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> class-action lawsuit against UUP, PSC, NYSUT, AFT and other unions.\u00a0 The plaintiffs were agency fee payers whose agency fee withholding stopped immediately following the Supreme Court\u2019s decision in <\/span><u><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: medium;\">Janus<\/span><\/u><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">.\u00a0\u00a0 In this suit, the plaintiffs brought a variety of claims against the unions, chief among them a claim seeking repayment of all agency fees paid by the plaintiffs and other class members prior to the <\/span><u><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: medium;\">Janus<\/span><\/u><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> decision.\u00a0\u00a0 The district court dismissed the case in its entirely.\u00a0 In doing so it held that UUP and the other unions could not be required to repay agency fees collected prior to the decision in <\/span><u><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: medium;\">Janus<\/span><\/u><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> as the unions were entitled to rely in good faith on Supreme Court decisions prior to Janus which found agency fees constitutional.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #201f1e; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">We are fully anticipating that the plaintiffs will appeal the district court\u2019s decision in our case.\u00a0 However, the court\u2019s decision was consistent with a growing number of similar federal court decisions across the country, including a number of federal appeals court decisions, affirming the \u201cgood faith\u201d defense against agency fee repayment claims. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #201f1e; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">For those of you who are interested in reading it, the decision is attached below.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uuphost.org\/cobleskill\/?attachment_id=1942\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1942\">127126173091<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #201f1e; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">At a time when I am sure all of us are eager for good news, it\u2019s nice to get a little bit at the start of the year. \u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #201f1e; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">In Solidarity,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #201f1e; font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Fred<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Colleagues,\u00a0 Great news! I am pleased to inform you that the federal district court has issued a decision dismissing the case in Seidemann, et al. v. Professional Staff Congress, et al. in its entirety.\u00a0 \u00a0 This case was a post-Janus class-action lawsuit against UUP, PSC, NYSUT, AFT and other unions.\u00a0 The plaintiffs were agency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/cobleskill\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/cobleskill\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/cobleskill\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/cobleskill\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/cobleskill\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/cobleskill\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1943,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/cobleskill\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941\/revisions\/1943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/cobleskill\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/cobleskill\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/cobleskill\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}