Bates v. City of Little Rock

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Bates v. City of Little Rock, 361 U.S. 516 (1960), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution forbade state governments from compelling the disclosure of an organization's membership lists via a tax-exemption regulatory scheme.

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**Bates v. City of Little Rock (361 U.S. 516) **

This was a companion case to _NAACP v. Alabama _ (1958), which also held that NAACP membership records are protected by First Amendment freedom of association, and _Talley v. California _ (1960), which held that Talley, a civil rights activist, could not be fined for an anonymous flyer. These cases help establish the right to privacy under the First Amendment, expanded on in _Roe v. Wade _ (1973) and Brown v. Socialist Workers '74 Campaign Committee _ (1982).[citation needed
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The court, citing _De Jonge v. Oregon _ and NAACP v. Alabama, compared freedom of association to other First Amendment rights that were incorporated : "[It] is now beyond dispute that freedom of association for the purpose of advancing ideas and airing grievances is protected by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment from invasion by the States."

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• List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 361

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• **^ **Text of Bates v. City of Little Rock, 361 U.S. 516 (1960) is available from: CourtListener Findlaw Google Scholar Internet Archive (docket files) Justia Library of Congress Oyez (oral argument audio)

• First Amendment Library entry for Bates v. City of Little Rock at the Library of Congress Web Archives (archived 2008-11-01)

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