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Exhibit 914

NAACP v. Alabama ex rel. Patterson, 357 U.S. 449

Exhibit 914 ยท Court opinion

NAACP v. Alabama ex rel. Patterson, 357 U.S. 449

Inviolability of privacy in group association may in many circumstances be indispensable to preservation of freedom of association, particularly where a group espouses dissident beliefs.

Unanimous Court (Harlan) held that compelled production of NAACP membership lists violated members' freedom of association on an uncontroverted showing of past reprisals.

Source
U.S. Supreme Court
Date
30 June 1958
Quoted from
357 U.S. at 462
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/357/449
Accessed
2026-11-10
Cited by
Findings citing this exhibit

Cited by

Finding POL-5.14
Primary record In NAACP v. Alabama (1958) the Supreme Court unanimously held compelled production of the NAACP's membership lists unconstitutional on an uncontroverted showing of reprisals against members. In Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Bonta (2021) the Court held, 6 to 3 on the judgment, that California's collection of charities' Schedule B donor lists was not narrowly tailored; Bonta concerned state collection from 501(c)(3) charities and did not concern federal campaign disclosure.