updated Sat. May 11, 2024
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Washington Examiner
February 26, 2018
The Supreme Court has long recognized the dangers inherent in applying the power of the state against the right of private association. The cornerstone here is 1958's NAACP v. Alabama. For reasons that hardly need be pointed out, the NAACP did not trust the state of Alabama, in the 1950s, to be goodÃâà...
Newsweek
February 21, 2018
The cornerstone here is 1958's NAACP v Alabama . For reasons that hardly need be pointed out, the NAACP did not trust the state of Alabama, in the 1950s, to be good stewards of its membership lists. “Inviolability of privacy in group association may in many circumstances be indispensable to preservationÃâà...
Reason
February 19, 2018
Nonprofit: Which falls afoul of NAACP v. Alabama, where the Supreme Court held that the NAACP didn't have identify its supporters, lest they face violent retaliation. Second Circuit: Not so. It's unlikely this group's donors would face similar reprisals, even if the state were to accidentally leak their names toÃâà...
Lexology
February 16, 2018
The associational privilege from disclosure draws strength from NAACP v. Alabama, 357 U.S. 449 (1958), in which the NAACP resisted turning over its membership list to the government for public disclosure. The U.S. Supreme Court held that the government's interest in disclosure did not outweigh theÃâà...
SCOTUSblog (blog)
August 10, 2017
In NAACP v. Alabama ex rel. Patterson, for example, the Supreme Court invalidated a requirement that the NAACP disclose its membership list. Justice John Marshall Harlan II's opinion for the court remarked that “the freedom to engage in association for the advancement of beliefs and ideas is anÃâà...
Mother Jones
July 5, 2016
On June 30, 1958, the court ruled unanimously in the NAACP's favor, and NAACP v. Alabama is considered to be a landmark decision in civil rights law. Justice John Harlan noted that the NAACP had made “an uncontroverted showing that on past occasions revelation of the identity of its rank-and-fileÃâà...
Washington Examiner
August 31, 2015
Bullies with government power always seem to know how to be creative in censoring their critics, which is one reason why we have the First Amendment as part of our nation's fundamental and paramount law over government itself. In the 1950s, many politicians wanted to silence the civil rights movement.
