National Association For Advancement of Colored People v. Committee On Offenses Against Administration of Justice
| Decision Date | 13 October 1958 |
| Docket Number | No. 84,84 |
| Citation | 3 L.Ed.2d 46,358 U.S. 40,79 S.Ct. 24 |
| Parties | NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR the ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE, Incorporated, et al., petitioners, v. COMMITTEE ON OFFENSES AGAINST the ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE |
| Court | U.S. Supreme Court |
Messrs. Robert L. Carter, Oliver W. Hill, S. W. Tucker and Martin A. Martin, for petitioners.
Messrs. Albertis S. Harrison, Jr., Atty. Gen. and William H. King, Special Asst. Atty. Gen., for State of Virginia, as amicus curiae.
On petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.
The petition for writ of certiorari is granted. In view of the representations of the Attorney General of Virginia that the cause has become moot, the judgment of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia is vacated and the cause is remanded for such further proceedings as that court may deem appropriate.
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