United Mine Workers of America Health & Retirement Funds v. Robinson

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• concluding that “[e]ven if the stated reason for a circuit court’s ruling is incorrect, the judgment should be affirmed if the judgment is sustainable on other grounds”
• holding that since the physical entry of the home is the chief evil against which the wording of the Fourth Amendment is directed, absent exigent circumstances or consent, officers may not enter a home without a warrant
• reversing a state-court ruling that relied on the premise that a warrantless entry to seize a person within a home can be held to Terry’s lower Fourth Amendment standard
• “former members ... may suffer from discrimination in collective-bargaining agreements because the union need not ‘affirmatively ... represent [them]”
• “There is no general requirement that the complex schedule of the various employee benefits withstand judicial review on an undefined standard of reasonableness”
• no breach of fiduciary duty in administering trust in accordance with terms of collective bargaining agreement

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