After Mark Janus won a landmark legal victory in 2018 outlawing public-sector unions’ collection of forced agency fees from non-members, the Supreme Court denied his follow-up request to get his money back without granting him a hearing. The new ruling in which the high court refused to consider the petition for certiorari in Janus v. AFSCME, which bears the same title of proceeding as the landmark ruling, came Jan. 25. The court did not explain why it acted. No justices indicated they dissented from the decision. The ruling, which leaves in place a decision by the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, is a victory for the labor movement. It came after the Supreme Court overturned Abood v. Detroit Board of Education (1977) in Janus’s earlier lawsuit in 2018, holding that public-sector unions could not collect forced agency fees from non-members to finance their collective bargaining activities without infringing the First …