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The Fairness Center is a member of the Goldwater Institute's litigation alliance. Per their motto "Representing Those Hurt by Public-Sector Union Officials," the Fairness Center pursues anti-union litigation -- providing pro bono legal aid.
See also: Freedom Foundation.
SOURCE: FairnessCenter.org, captured 2020-09-15
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The Fairness Center is a nonprofit, public interest law firm that provides free legal services to those hurt by public-sector union officials. Being, above all, client centric, we vigorously pursue our clients' goals through a cohesive, holistic approach to representation, advocating for our clients both in the court of law and the court of public opinion. As we pursue our bedrock principle of excellent representation on behalf of our clients, the firm's seasoned litigation attorneys employ a variety of strategies to further our clients' best interests. Our attorneys have the experience and knowledge to engage in complex civil litigation, and can handle matters ranging from administrative charges and hearings to filing traditional and class-action lawsuits in federal and state courts.
Our firm has filed a wide variety of lawsuits on behalf of individuals who are both union and non-union members, and for organizations seeking to push back on injuries caused by the actions of public-sector union officials. This includes representing teachers who want to do what they love without supporting a union with which they disagree; a graduate assistant who wants an education without union involvement; a homecare worker who wants to protect his working relationship from union intrusion; taxpayers who want their money to support education, not union activity; a firefighter's local union trying to protect its firefighters' right to disaffiliate from a large, state union; and religious objectors to unionism who want to support that in which they believe, not what union officials choose for them.
Our attorneys have the experience and knowledge to engage in complex civil litigation, and can handle matters ranging from administrative charges and hearings to filing traditional and class-action lawsuits in federal and state courts. Our team fights for our clients both in the court of law and the court of public opinion.
SOURCE: SourceWatch.org, captured 2020-09-15 | Note red flag re: SourceWatch
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The Fairness Center is a member of the Goldwater Institute's litigation alliance, a project started in 2014. The Milwaukee-based Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation provided $350,000 in seed money for litigator Clint Bolick's "initiative to create a state litigation alliance" (Report: Goldwater Institute, 2016).
Clint Bolick, a Bradley Prize recipient, was Vice President for litigation at the Goldwater Institute at the time. Today Bolick is on the Arizona Supreme Court. The state litigation alliance, according to Bradley internal documents, "helps research and identify those states that have greatest potential for advancing state-constitutional law -- then trains and, if asked, mentors attorneys who can either lead or staff existing or newly-created legal centers elsewhere, with an intensive 'litigation boot camp' for interested conscripts."
Clint Bolick is a co-Founder of the Institute for Justice, a non-profit libertarian public interest law firm in the United States. The Institute for Justice has litigated eight cases considered by the United States Supreme Court dealing with topics that included eminent domain, interstate commerce, public financing for elections, school vouchers, tax credits for private school tuition, civil asset forfeiture, and residency requirements for liquor license.
In all, Bradley has contributed $600,000 to the state litigation alliance because it "retains great potential to continue maximizing the benefit of Bradley's much other recent strategic grantmaking to improve conservative infrastructures" (Goldwater Institute, Grant History Record, 11/10/2014).
Goldwater's "List: conservative public-interest litigation entities in the states," as of 2014.
Michael Carnuccio, founder of the Liberty Foundation of America, and President of the E Foundation
Joseph G. Lehman, President of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy
David Osborne
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