Harrison v. NAACP
1959 United States Supreme Court case / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Harrison v. NAACP, 360 U.S. 167 (1959), is a 6-to-3 ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States which held that the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia should have abstained from deciding the constitutionality of three barratry, champerty, and maintenance laws in the state of Virginia until state courts had had a reasonable chance to construe them.[1]
Quick Facts Harrison v. NAACP, Argued March 23–24, 1959 Decided June 8, 1959 ...
Harrison v. NAACP | |
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Argued March 23–24, 1959 Decided June 8, 1959 | |
Full case name | Harrison, Attorney General of Virginia, et al. v. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, et al. |
Citations | 360 U.S. 167 (more) 79 S. Ct. 1025; 3 L. Ed. 2d 1152; 1959 U.S. LEXIS 1760 |
Case history | |
Prior | 159 F. Supp. 503 (E.D. Va. 1958); probable jurisdiction noted, 358 U.S. 807 (1958). |
Subsequent | NAACP v. Harrison, 202 Va. 142; 116 S.E.2d 55 (1960); cert. granted, 365 U.S. 842 (1961); reversed, NAACP v. Button, 371 U.S. 415 (1963). |
Holding | |
District court erred in deciding the constitutionality of state law before state courts had a reasonable opportunity to construe them. | |
Court membership | |
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Case opinions | |
Majority | Harlan, joined by Black, Frankfurter, Clark, Whittaker, Stewart |
Dissent | Douglas, joined by Warren, Brennan |
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