A federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on union membership fees, Janus v. AFSCME, does not apply to a case in Pennsylvania involving ex-union public employees suing for having to continue to pay fees.

U.S. District Chief Judge John E. Jones III of the Middle District of Pennsylvania ruled in favor of defendant AFSCME Council 13, granting its motion for dismissal of plaintiff Miriam Fultz and a class of public employees’ claims that the union unconstitutionally charged them membership dues after they resigned from it.

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