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EX PARTE LOWE

No. D-4506.

887 S.W.2d 1 (1994)

Ex parte: Michael LOWE, Grand Dragon of the Texas Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Overruled December 22, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph Jacovson, Austin, Anthony P. Griffin and Jan L. Fry, Galveston, for petitioner.

Brooks W. Conover, III and Dan Morales, Austin, for respondent.

PER CURIAM.

This habeas corpus proceeding involves the First Amendment associational rights privilege against disclosure of membership lists guaranteed to dissident groups, as applied to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The question is whether Michael Lowe, in his capacity as Grand Dragon of the Texas Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and custodian of its membership list, could be held in contempt for refusing to comply with...

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