Herman O. Tooley, Edward J. Helt and Arnold G. Bakke v. Martin-Marietta Corporation, a Corporation and United Steel Workers of America, Local 8141

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• concluding that exempting the plaintiffs from mandatory union dues and having them pay an equal amount to charity was reasonable because the plaintiffs would suffer the same economic loss as the union member employees
• concluding that exempting the plaintiffs from mandatory union dues and having them pay an equal amount to charity was reasonable because the plaintiffs would suffer the same economic loss as the union member employees
• finding that legislation intended to “assure that freedom from religious discrimination in employment of workers is for all time guaranteed in law” has a “legitimate secular purpose.”
• undue hardship requires “proof of actual imposition on coworkers or disruption of the work routine” rather than “conceivable or hypothetical hardships” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• “Disparate treatment of employees ... is not necessarily unreasonable.”

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