Bates v. City of Little Rock
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| Bates v. City of Little Rock | |||||||||||||||
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| Argued November 18, 1959 Decided February 23, 1960 |
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| State governments cannot compel the disclosure of an organization's membership lists when it inhibits freedom of association. | |||||||||||||||
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| Chief Justice: Earl Warren Associate Justices: Hugo Black, Felix Frankfurter, William O. Douglas, Tom C. Clark, John Marshall Harlan II, William J. Brennan, Charles Evans Whittaker, Potter Stewart |
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| Majority by: Stewart Joined by: unanimous court Concurrence by: Black and Douglas |
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| U.S. Const. amend. I and XIV | |||||||||||||||
Bates v. City of Little Rock, 361 U.S. 516 (1960), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution forbade state government to compel the disclosure of an organization’s membership lists via a tax-exemption regulatory scheme.
[edit] External links
- ^ 361 U.S. 516 Full text of the opinion courtesy of Findlaw.com.
- First Amendment Library entry for Bates v. City of Little Rock
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