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United States freedom of associationcompelled disclosureassociational privacy

NAACP v. Alabama ex rel. Patterson

357 U. S. 449 (1958)
JurisdictionUnited States
CourtSupreme Court of the United States
Year1958
StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

The freedom to associate for the advancement of beliefs and ideas is protected by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, and a state may not compel disclosure of an organization's membership lists where such disclosure would substantially restrain members' associational freedom absent a compelling, narrowly related state interest.

Area of Law

General

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