Ex parte National Association for Advancement of Colored People

Decision Date13 August 1956
Docket Number3 Div. 773
CitationEx parte National Association for Advancement of Colored People, 91 So.2d 221, 265 Ala. 699 (Ala. 1956)
PartiesEx parte NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR the ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE, a Corporation. In re: STATE of Alabama, ex rel. John PATTERSON, Atty. Gen., v. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR the ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE.
CourtAlabama Supreme Court

Arthur D. Shores, Birmingham, Fred D. Gray, Montgomery, and Robt. L. Carter, New York City, for petitioner.

John Patterson, Atty. Gen., for respondent.

PER CURIAM.

The averments of the petition for writ of certiorari in this cause are insufficient to warrant the issuance of the writ. The petition is, therefore denied.

All the Justices concur.

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4 cases
  • NATIONAL ASS'N FOR ADVANCE. OF COLORED PEOPLE v. Gallion
    • United States
    • U.S. Court of Appeals — Fifth Circuit
    • May 15, 1961
    ...purged itself of contempt. The Supreme Court of Alabama refused to review the contempt judgment. Ex parte National Association for Advancement of Colored People, 265 Ala. 699, 91 So.2d 221; Id., 265 Ala. 349, 91 So.2d The Supreme Court of the United States granted certiorari and held that, ......
  • National Association For Advancement of Colored People v. State of Alabama Patterson
    • United States
    • U.S. Supreme Court
    • June 30, 1958
    ... ... statute, was '* * * causing irreparable injury to the property and civil rights of the residents and citizens of the State of Alabama for which criminal prosecution and civil actions at law afford no adequate relief * * *.' On the day the complaint was filed, the Circuit Court issued ex parte an order restraining the Association, pendente lite, from engaging in ... Page 453 ... further activities within the State and forbidding it to take any steps to qualify itself to do business therein ...           Petitioner demurred to the allegations of the bill and moved to ... ...
  • NATIONAL ASS'N FOR ADV. OF COLORED PEOPLE v. Gallion
    • United States
    • U.S. District Court — Middle District of Alabama
    • August 11, 1960
    ...U.S.C.A. 3 Ex parte National Ass'n for Advancement of Colored People, 265 Ala. 349, 91 So.2d 214, and Ex parte National Ass'n for Advancement of Colored People, 265 Ala. 699, 91 So.2d 221. 4 National Ass'n for Advancement of Colored People v. State of Alabama, 1958, 357 U.S. 449, 78 S.Ct. 1......
  • Bedsole v. State, 4 Div. 311
    • United States
    • Alabama Court of Appeals
    • November 27, 1956
1 books & journal articles
  • The South Counterattacks: the Anti-Naacp Laws
    • United States
    • Sage Political Research Quarterly No. 12-2, June 1959
    • June 1, 1959
    ...Patterson v. NAACP, 1 Race Rel. L. Rep. 707 (1956); 1 ibid. 917 (1956).36 Ex parte NAACP, 91 So. 2d 214 (1956); 91 So. 2d 220 (1956); 91 So. 2d 221 advancement of beliefs and ideas is an inseparable aspect of the ’liberty’assured by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, whiche......