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Sweeney et al v. Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund et al
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March 20, 2019
Pension Plan Lobbying Is Gov't Speech, Ill. Judge Finds
An Illinois federal judge tossed a local engineering union's suit over investments by the pension fund for Illinois municipal workers, finding Tuesday that the fund's money-placing decisions — even to organizations the union finds objectionable — are governmental speech that couldn't have violated the union members' First Amendment rights, if they can be considered speech at all.
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February 26, 2018
Pension Plan Lobbying Violates 1st Amendment Rights: Union
Anticipating the end of "fair share" union fees by the Supreme Court, an engineering union's local chapter on Friday sued the pension fund for Illinois' municipal workers in federal court, arguing that the benefit plan's use of contribution funds for lobbying and other political activity violates union members' First Amendment rights.