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According to Alabama case law, however, a petitioner could not seek a hearing or to dissolve an order until it purged itself of contempt. Lead attorney on NAACP v. Alabama, Judge Robert L. Carter (left), with the dean of Georgetown University Law Center, William Treanor. The United States Supreme Court reversed the first contempt judgment. The ...
The lawsuit is being brought by a group of advocacy groups -- including the Alabama State Conference of the NAACP, Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice, League of Women Voters of Alabama, and ...
Sweezy v. New Hampshire (1957) NAACP v. Alabama (1958) Bates v. City of Little Rock (1960) Shelton v. Tucker (1960) Gibson v. Florida Legislative Investigation Committee (1963) Eastland v. United States Servicemen's Fund (1975) Abood v. Detroit Board of Education (1977) In re Primus (1978) Roberts v. United States Jaycees (1984) Rotary Int'l v.
On behalf of the women (excluding Parks), the NAACP filed a successful lawsuit against Montgomery Mayor William A. Gayle, the chief of police, the bus drivers and the bus company.
The petitioners referenced the Court's decisions in NAACP v. Alabama (1958) and Bates v. City of Little Rock (1960), which found that states could not demand donor lists or other private information from non-profits to make determinations about the nature of their business if there were other non-intrusive methods available to the state. The ...
The outcomes of these cases will test the durability of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the constitutional rights […] The post What Black voters should know about redistricting cases in these ...
NAACP v. Button, 371 U.S. 415 (1963), is a ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States which held that the reservation of jurisdiction by a federal district court did not bar the U.S. Supreme Court from reviewing a state court's ruling, and also overturned certain laws enacted by the state of Virginia in 1956 as part of the Stanley Plan and massive resistance, as violating the First and ...
In Alabama, there were 359 reported lynchings between 1877 and 1943, according to the Equal Justice Initiative, a criminal justice reform nonprofit. In Colbert County alone, there were 11.