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STATE v. NATIONAL ASS'N FOR ADVANCE. OF COLORED PEOPLE

Nos. 1678, 8554.

181 F.Supp. 37 (1960)

STATE of Louisiana ex rel. Jack P. F. GREMILLION, Attorney, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE et al., Defendants-Petitioners. NEW ORLEANS BRANCH OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE et al., Plaintiffs, v. Wade O. MARTIN, Jr., Secretary of State, State of Louisiana, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court E. D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division.

February 5, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

In No. 1678:

Jack P. F. Gremillion, Atty. Gen. of Louisiana, Wm. P. Schuler, Asst. Atty. Gen., of Louisiana, for plaintiff.

A. P. Tureaud, A. M. Trudeau, Jr., New Orleans, La., Robert L. Carter, New York City, Alex L. Pitcher, Jr., Baton Rouge, La., and Jesse N. Stone, Jr., Shreveport, La., for defendant.

In No. 8554:

A. P. Tureaud, A. M. Trudeau, Jr., Ernest N. Morial, New Orleans, La., and Robert L. Carter, New York City, for plaintiff.

Jack P. F. Gremillion, Atty. Gen. of Louisiana, Geo. M. Ponder, Baton Rouge, La., and Wm. P. Schuler, Asst. Atty. Gen., of Louisiana, for defendant.

Before WISDOM, Circuit Judge, and CHRISTENBERRY and WRIGHT, District Judges.

PER CURIAM.

In these consolidated proceedings the Court is required to determine the constitutionality of certain Louisiana statutes (Act 2 of 1924, LSA-R.S. of 1950, 12:401-409 and Act 260 of 1958, LSA-R.S. of 1950, 14:385-388) in the application of these statutes to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

The association alleges that the disclosure of its membership, required under Act 2 of 1924, subjects its members to economic reprisals...

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