Chastity Lucas v. William K. Gleason, as of the Estate of Robert Wallace Despain, Pollyanna Despain, Debbie Sue Vincent, Michael Thomas Vincent, and Daniel Lee Vincent

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• noting that content-based regulations of speech are presumptively unconstitutional, but that in the “unique context of public-sector agency-shop arrangements, the content-based nature of [the statute at issue] does not violate the First Amendment”
• finding that “speech that is . . . defamatory can be constitutionally proscribed because the social interest in order and morality outweighs the negligible contribution of those categories of speech to the marketplace of ideas”
• noting situations involving content-based restrictions of speech that are subject to relaxed scrutiny because they raise no realistic concern over the suppression of ideas
• applying nonpublic forum requirements of viewpoint neutrality and reasonableness to public employee union dues withholding system
• considering constitutionality of law prohibiting payroll deductions for political spending unless the union had the affirmative consent of the non-member
• describing the “fair-share” goal of “preventing] nonmembers from free-riding on the union’s efforts, sharing the employment benefits obtained by the union’s collective bargaining without sharing the costs incurred”

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