Advocates for Labor and Progressive Institutions
In a major victory for public education, on September 11, 2024, the South Carolina Supreme Court in Eidson v. South Carolina Department of Education struck down a private school voucher program enacted by the State Legislature in 2023.
Bredhoff attorneys scored a pair of important recent victories on behalf of our clients in cases arising under the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (also called the Landrum-Griffin Act).
Bredhoff is honored to host seven summer associates in our Washington, D.C. office for Summer 2024.
Our esteemed summers, hailing from law schools across the United States, have collaborated with Bredhoff attorneys to make important, substantive contributions to the Firm’s work on behalf of working people and their unions.
Three multiemployer pension funds represented by Bredhoff & Kaiser have been awarded a combined total of over $5.5 billion in special financial assistance from the federal government under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. The largest of these awards, in excess of $3 billion, was made in June 2024.
On April 4, Penny Clark was honored with the Peggy Browning Award for her service to the labor movement. Penny began her career at Bredhoff as an associate after clerking for Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
Represented by Bredhoff & Kaiser, a group of ten unions and individuals filed a complaint in Dane County Circuit Court (Wis.) challenging certain provisions of Wisconsin’s 2011 Act 10, which fundamentally changed the landscape of Wisconsin’s decades-old system of public-sector labor relations.
In a decision advancing important policy considerations, the Tennessee Supreme Court held that a trial court was correct to dismiss on the face of the pleadings a malicious prosecution claim brought against a national union.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed a victory on behalf of a class of Colgate-Palmolive Company retirees and former employees whose retirement benefits had been underpaid, finding that the plain language of the governing plan amendment mandated the additional payments. Prior to the amendment in question, Colgate had been violating the Employee Retirement Income Security Act in two distinct ways in calculating lump sum pension payouts for departing employees. Colgate’s contention was that it intended the plan amendment to address only one of the violations and that former employees whose payouts were deficient because of the second violation had no claim under the amendment.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that an Illinois teacher union was entitled to enforce the terms of a union membership agreement. In so holding, the court soundly rejected an argument that a teacher had a First Amendment right under the Supreme Court’s decision in Janus v. AFSCME, Council 31, 138 S. Ct. 2448 (2018), to avoid paying dues under that agreement.