United States Ninth Circuit

In providing financial information to non-members in order to support the amount of an agency fee, a union must provide a statement of its chargeable and non-chargeable expenses together with an independent verification that the expenses were actually incurred, though a formal audit is not required.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/09/2002
• Decided 04/15/2003
• Published 04/15/2003

Judges

• Before SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, B. FLETCHER and KOZINSKI, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mark J. Beutler, National Right To Work Legal Defense Foundation, Inc., Springfield, VA, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• John M. West, Bredhoff & Kaiser, P.L.L.C., Washington, DC, and Jeffrey B. Demain, Altshuler, Berzon, Nussbaum, Rubin & Demain, San Francisco, CA, for the appellees-cross-appellants.