Bates v. City of Little Rock

Bates v. City of Little Rock
Bates v. City of Little Rock
	U.S. LEXIS 1601
Case history
Prior	Certiorari to the Supreme Court of Arkansas
Subsequent	229 Ark. 819, 319 S. W. 2d 37, reversed.
Holding
	State governments cannot compel the disclosure of an organization's membership lists when it inhibits freedom of association.
Court membership
	Chief Justice Earl Warren Associate Justices John M. Harlan II · William J. Brennan Jr.; Charles E. Whittaker · Potter Stewart
Case opinions
Majority	Stewart, joined by unanimous
Concurrence	Black & Douglas
Laws applied
	U.S. Const. amend. I and XIV

Bates v. City of Little Rock, 361 U.S. 516 (1960), was a case in which the

U.S. Constitution forbade state government to compel the disclosure of an organization's membership lists via a tax-exemption regulatory scheme.^[1]

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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