United States of America, Amicus Curiae
Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., Counsel of Record
The United States filed an amicus brief in this case because of the First Amendment and labor law issues involved. Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., was nominated to be solicitor general by President Barack Obama on January 26, 2011, and was sworn in on June 9, 2011. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for Respondents as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on November 13, 2015. This Court held in Abood v. Detroit Board of Education (1977) that a public employer may require its employees to pay fees to an exclusive representative to cover a proportionate share of…
