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

No. 18576.

290 F.2d 337 (1961)

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR the ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE, Appellant, v. MacDonald GALLION, Attorney General of Alabama and Mrs. Bettye Frink, Secretary of State, State of Alabama, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

May 15, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Carter, New York City, Arthur D. Shores, Birmingham, Ala., Fred D. Gray, Montgomery, Ala., Orzell Billingsley, Jr., Peter Hall, Birmingham, Ala., of counsel, for appellant.

Willard W. Livingston, Chief Asst. Atty. Gen., MacDonald Gallion, Atty. Gen., Gordon Madison and Leslie Hall, Asst. Attys. Gen., for appellees.

Before TUTTLE, Chief Judge, JONES, Circuit Judge, and MIZE, District Judge.


JONES, Circuit Judge.

In 1956 the Attorney General of Alabama brought suit in the Circuit Court of the 15th Judicial Circuit of Alabama, Montgomery County, against the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, herein referred to as NAACP, a New York corporation, asserting that it was doing business in Alabama without qualifying as a foreign corporation, and seeking to enjoin it from conducting business and from exercising any of its corporate functions...

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