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National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. Alabama Ex Rel. Patterson

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Limited by some courts
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
357 U.S. 449
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
38 of 38
Citing cases (total)
38
Treatment dates
1973
Limited by some courts
At least one reviewed court has limited this case’s holding to narrower facts or a narrower rule. No reviewed court has overruled it. Limited by Aguayo v. Richardson: the association's standing to assert its members' associational rights does not extend to welfare organizations asserting members' separate civil rights claims under § 1983. NAACP v. Alabama's protection against unjustified disclosure of membership lists remains intact.
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Treatments

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  • The Second Circuit declined to extend NAACP v. Alabama's associational standing ruling to welfare organizations suing under § 1983 over their members' nonassociational claims.

    Aguayo v. Richardson · Second Circuit · filed

    We do not regard the line of decisions beginning with NAACP v. Alabama ex rel. Patterson, 357 U.S. 449, 458-460, 78 S.Ct. 1163, 2 L.Ed.2d 1488 (1958), and continuing through Bates v. City of Little Rock, 361 U.S. 516, 523 n. 9, 80 S.Ct. 412, 4 L.Ed.2d 480 (1960), and Louisiana ex rel. Gremillion v. NAACP, 366 U.S. 293, 296, 81 S.Ct. 1333, 6 L.Ed.2d 301 (1961), to NAACP v. Button, 371 U.S. 415, 428-429, 83 S.Ct. 328, 9 L.Ed.2d 405 (1963), as having altered that principle in any way helpful to the organization plaintiffs here. The statements in those opinions that the organization has standing to assert the rights of its members were made in the context of a claim of abridgment of the constitutional right of association; indeed, in all but the last case, the right to refrain from disclosure of membership because of the adverse effect of disclosure on both the association and the members was the very point at issue.
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