![]() The judge turned aside the union’s equal protection claim, finding the city’s law rationally related to its interest in promoting police accountability.īoasberg said collective bargaining has never been recognized as a fundamental constitutional right protected by substantive due process. District Judge James Boasberg dismissed the Fraternal Order of Police’s constitutional challenge to a law that eliminates all police discipline from collective bargaining. The most significant could be in the District of Columbia, where U.S. Three courts in recent months have rejected initial police union challenges to measures that effectively invalidate or strip discipline rules in collective bargaining agreements. Cities and states responding to nationwide protests sparked by George Floyd’s killing have begun trying to root out barriers to police accountability embedded in union contracts-and the first federal courts to weigh in are signaling the efforts could work.
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