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N. A. A. C. P. v. ALABAMA

No. 753.

360 U.S. 240 (1959)

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE v. ALABAMA EX REL. PATTERSON.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 8, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Carter, Thurgood Marshall, Arthur D. Shores, William T. Coleman, Jr., George E. C. Hayes, William R. Ming, Jr., James M. Nabrit, Jr., Louis H. Pollak, Frank D. Reeves and William Taylor for petitioner.

MacDonald Gallion, Attorney General of Alabama, and James W. Webb, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent.

PER CURIAM.

The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted.

In our original opinion in this case, 357 U.S. 449, we held the Alabama judgment of civil contempt against this petitioner, together with the $100,000 fine which it carried, constitutionally impermissible in the circumstances disclosed by the record. We declined, however, to review the trial court's restraining order prohibiting petitioner from engaging in further...

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