- June 24, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
The ruling will imperil not only union organizers in California seeking to reach workers but could make it more difficult for the government to allow temporary access in other areas.
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the 6-3 decision. Justice Stephen Breyer, joined by his liberal colleagues Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, dissented, emphasizing the power of the strong conservative majority.
“Perhaps for the first time since Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the court in October, here we see the full force of the new 6-3 conservative majority embracing a broad view of property rights both in general and at the specific expense of organized labor,” said Steve Vladeck, CNN Supreme Court analyst and professor at the University of Texas School of Law.
“Indeed, it’s just the third time all term that the court split right down party lines in a signed opinion and the first in a non-criminal case,” Vladeck said. “In that respect, it is, almost certainly,…
