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RAILWAY MAIL ASSN. v. CORSI

No. 691.

326 U.S. 88 (1945)

65 S.Ct. 1483

89 L.Ed. 2072

RAILWAY MAIL ASSOCIATION v. CORSI, INDUSTRIAL COMMISSIONER OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 18, 1945.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Daniel J. Dugan, with whom Mr. Isadore Bookstein was on the brief, for appellant.

Wendell P. Brown, First Assistant Attorney General of New York, with whom Nathaniel L. Goldstein, Attorney General, Orrin G. Judd, Solicitor General, and Henry S. Manley, Assistant Attorney General, were on the brief, for appellees.

Briefs were filed by Messrs. William H. Hastie, Thurgood Marshall and Leon A. Ransom on behalf of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; and by Messrs. Arthur Garfield Hays and Walter Gordon Merritt on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union, as amici curiae, in support of appellees.

MR. JUSTICE REED delivered the opinion of the Court.

The appellant, Railway Mail Association, questioned the validity of Section 43, and related Sections 41 and 45, of the New York Civil Rights Law which provide, under penalty against its officers and members, that no labor organization shall deny a person membership by reason of race, color or creed, or deny to any of its members, by reason of race, color or creed, equal treatment in the designation of its members...

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