Perry Education Assn. v. Perry Local Educators' Assn.
United States Supreme Court
460 U.S. 37 (1983)
The Perry Education Association (PEA, defendant), the exclusive collective-bargaining representative for Perry Township teachers, had an agreement with the school board giving it sole access to the interschool mail system and teacher mailboxes, while a rival union, the Perry Local Educators' Association (PLEA, plaintiff), was denied that same access. PLEA sued in federal court, claiming the exclusion violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments; the district court denied relief, the court of appeals reversed, and PEA appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Whether strict scrutiny, rather than mere reasonableness review, applies to government restrictions on access to a non-public forum such as a school's internal mail system.