Perry Education Ass'n v. Perry Local Educators' Ass'n
- Decided
- February 23, 1983
- Docket
- 81-896
- Status
- Published
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
Cited 2,855 timesNo negative treatment found in this library
What later courts said
- holding that the exclusion of rival union from teachers' internal mail system was viewpoint neutral and therefore valid — General Media Communications, Inc. v. Cohen (1997)
- holding that a content-based restriction on noncommercial expression must be “necessary to serve a compelling state interest.” — American Legion Post 7 of Durham, North Carolina v. City of Durham (2001)
- holding that the exclusion of rival union from teachers’ internal mail system was viewpoint neutral and therefore valid — General Media Communications, Inc. v. Cohen (1997)
Each line is a later court’s own words about this case, not a summary. Read the opinion before relying on it.
How the opinion begins
Justice White delivered the opinion of the Court.
Perry Education Association is the duly elected exclusive bargaining representative for the teachers of the Metropoli [*39] tan School District of Perry Township, Ind. A collective-bargaining agreement with the Board of Education provided that Perry Education Association, but no other union, would have access to the interschool mail system and teacher mailboxes in the Perry Township schools. The issue in this case is whether the denial of similar access to the Perry Local Educators’ Association, a rival teacher group, violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments.
The Metropolitan School District of Perry Township, Ind., operates a public school system of 13 separate schools. Each school building contains a set of mailboxes for the teachers. Interschool delivery by school employees permits messages to be delivered rapidly to teachers in the District.[1] The primary function of this internal mail system is to transmit official messages among the teachers and between the teachers and the school administration. In addition, teachers use the system to send personal messages, and individual school building principals have allowed delivery of messages from various private organizations.[2]
Statutes cited
- 42 U.S.C. § 1983
- 28 U.S.C. § 1254
- 28 U.S.C. § 2103
- 18 U.S.C. § 1693
- 39 U.S.C. § 601
- 28 U.S.C. § 1257
- 5 U.S.C. § 7116
- 29 U.S.C. § 151
Cite this
Perry Education Ass'n v. Perry Local Educators' Ass'n, 460 U.S. 37 (1983)Read the full opinion
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