NAACP v. Button
1963 United States Supreme Court case / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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NAACP v. Button, 371 U.S. 415 (1963), is a 6-to-3 ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States which held that the reservation of jurisdiction by a federal district court did not bar the U.S. Supreme Court from reviewing a state court's ruling, and also overturned certain laws enacted by the state of Virginia in 1956 as part of the Stanley Plan and massive resistance, as violating the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.[1] The statutes struck down by the Supreme Court (and one overturned by the Virginia Supreme Court after the 1959 remand in Harrison v. NAACP) had expanded the definitions of the traditional common law crimes of champerty and maintenance, as well as barratry, and had been targeted at the NAACP and its civil rights litigation.
NAACP v. Button | |
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Argued November 8, 1961 Reargued October 9, 1962 Decided January 14, 1963 | |
Full case name | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. Button, Attorney General of Virginia, et al. |
Citations | 371 U.S. 415 (more) 83 S. Ct. 328; 9 L. Ed. 2d 405; 1963 U.S. LEXIS 2398 |
Case history | |
Prior | NAACP v. Harrison, 202 Va. 142; 116 S.E.2d 55 (1960); cert. granted, 365 U.S. 842 (1961). |
Holding | |
Virginia laws on barratry, champerty, and maintenance violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments. | |
Court membership | |
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Case opinions | |
Majority | Brennan, joined by Warren, Black, Douglas, Goldberg |
Concurrence | Douglas |
Concur/dissent | White |
Dissent | Harlan, joined by Clark, Stewart |
Laws applied | |
U.S. Const. Amend. I; XIV |