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151441P.pdf 12/03/2015 Kristina Greene v. Mark Dayton
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 15-1441
U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - Minneapolis
[PUBLISHED] [Murphy, Author, with Loken and Colloton, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Minnesota Individual Providers of Direct Services
Representation Act. The Act permits homecare providers for Medicaid
programs participants to unionize under the Public Employment Labor
Relations Act. The providers' challenge to the Act as violative of the
Supremacy Clause is rejected as the Act is not preempted by the National
Labor Relations Act; tortious interference with contract claim was
properly rejected as the defendant union's actions were justified as a
matter of law under the Act, and a federal court could not order the state
defendants to conform their conduct to state law; Contract Clause claims
were properly rejected because the providers never had the authority to
negotiate compensation or benefit terms with program participants.