Bartlett v. Baasiri

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How courts have described this case

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• holding that \dissent is not to be presumed--it must affirmatively be made known to the union by the dissenting employee.\
• holding that “dissent is not to be presumed — it must affirmatively be made known to the union by the dissenting employee.”
• explaining that the 20 freeriding issue was “decisive with Congress” in enacting § 2, Eleventh
• noting that “if a serious doubt of constitutionality is raised, it is a cardinal principle that this Court will first ascertain whether a construction of the statute is fairly possible by which the question may be avoided”
• discussing possible judicial remedies for violation of a federal statute that forbade unions from spending objecting employees’ fees for political purposes
• construing Railway Labor Act to avoid constitutional question of whether union could spend employee’s dues for political causes that employee opposes

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