96 Wash. 2d 454 - Grant v. Spellman’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Thomas v. Review Board of the Indiana Employment Security Division · Abood v. Detroit Board of Education · International Ass'n of MacHinists v. Street · Railway Employes' Department v. Hanson · National Labor Relations Board v. General Motors Corp.
Most-quoted passages
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“[E]mployees with a bona fide religious objection to union membership and/or association based on the bona fide tenents or teachings of a church or religious body of which such employee is a member shall not be required to tender those dues or initiation fees to the Union ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A]greements involving union security provisions must safeguard the right of nonassociation of public employees based on bona fide religious tenets or teachings of a church or religious body of which such public employee is a member.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“objections are based on personal beliefs”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.