A split decision in the Supreme Court Tuesday offered the gossip website Gawker another chance to take a few more digs at the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
“Antonin Scalia has saved labor unions,” read a headline published shortly after the court announced it was split 4-4 in the case of Friedrichs vs. California Teachers Association.
The case before the court dealt with public sector collective bargaining by the California’s Teachers Association. Those on the side of the teachers association, including Gawker’s Hamilton Nolan, argued that the case “could have permanently crippled public unions in America” if the court ruled in favor of Friedrichs.
But with Scalia’s passing, the court is now split 4-4, meaning his death is a benefit to labor unions, Gawker argued.
“[T]he high court, lacking Scalia, split 4-4, meaning that the lower court ruling in favor of the unions stands. Scalia would likely have been the deciding vote against labor unions,” Nolan wrote.
“At last, Scalia’s legacy has something to offer the working class,” he added.
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