abood
Speech parts
1. abood - Noun
2. Abood - Proper noun
Meaning
A surname from Arabic.
A male given name from Arabic.
abood (plural aboods)
Obsolete spelling of abode
Anagrams
Examples
In an extraordinary postscript to an under-13s game on November 15, Abood was fined $5000 and must in the next 12 months complete 20 hours of voluntary service to the education and training of domestic cricket umpires through Cricket NSW.
Detroit teacher D. Louis Abood objected to being forced to become a member or pay agency fees (which are generally lower but pay for bargaining services) to a teachers union.
In a 2014 ruling concerning Illinois home-care workers, called Harris v. Quinn, Justice Samuel Alito opined that the Abood reasoning was “troubling” and “questionable on several grounds.”
Justice Alito, in particular, has been quite critical of Abood as recently as one year ago, finding Abood to lie on “questionable foundations.”
Such a decision would overrule the 40-year-old Abood v. Detroit Board of Education.
Conservatives have long chafed under the Abood ruling, and labor unions’ antagonists have similarly dreamed of reversing it.