Connecticut Captive Audience Law Dodges Preemption Challenge

A Connecticut business group lacks legal standing to challenge the state’s ban on mandatory anti-union meetings in the workplace, a federal judge found, bypassing the issue of whether US labor law preempts that statute.

CBIA, or the Connecticut Business & Industry Association, failed to show it faces the serious threat of enforcement, Judge Kari A. Dooley of the US District Court for the District of Connecticut ruled Friday. That type of harm is needed to establish standing for a pre-enforcement challenge to the state law, Dooley said.

The Connecticut law was the first in a recent spate of union-backed state ...