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Socialist Workers Party v. Attorney General, 419 U.S. 1314 (1974)
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General SummaryThis case is from a collection containing the full text of over 16,000 Supreme Court cases from 1793 to the present. The body of Supreme Court decisions are, effectively, the final interpretation of the Constitution. Only an amendment to the Constitution can permanently overturn an interpretation and this has happened only four times in American history.
Socialist Workers Party v. Attorney General, 419 U.S. 1314 (1974)
Socialist Workers Party v. Attorney General No. A-534 Decided December 27, 1974 419 U.S. 1314
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
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Applicants, the Socialist Workers Party, its youth organization (YSA), and various individuals, brought an action against various Government officials for alleged interference in their political activities and sought an injunction, which the District Court granted, barring FBI agents and informants from attending or otherwise monitoring the YSA national convention. Except for upholding a bar against the FBI’s transmitting to the Civil Service Commission (CSC) the names of persons attending the convention, the Court of Appeals vacated the injunction, noting that the convention was open to anyone under age 29 and that the only investigative method would be the use of informants who would attend meetings as the public would and that any "chilling effect" on applicants’ rights was not sufficient to outweigh prejudice to the Government that compromising its informants would entail. Applicants apply for a stay of the Court of Appeals’ order and reinstatement of the District Court’s injunction.
Held: Although, unlike the situation in Laird v. Tatum, 408 U.S. 1, applicants’ allegations of a "chilling effect" are sufficiently specific to satisfy Art. III’s jurisdictional requirements, nevertheless a stay would be improper, since the FBI has represented that it plans no disruptive activity at the convention and will not transmit information to nongovernmental entities, and since interim relief against disclosure of delegates’ names to the CSC has been granted.
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Chicago: U.S. Supreme Court, "Syllabus," Socialist Workers Party v. Attorney General, 419 U.S. 1314 (1974) in 419 U.S. 1314 Original Sources, accessed November 24, 2024, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=8TH4X5S1CD1HTND.
MLA: U.S. Supreme Court. "Syllabus." Socialist Workers Party v. Attorney General, 419 U.S. 1314 (1974), in 419 U.S. 1314, Original Sources. 24 Nov. 2024. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=8TH4X5S1CD1HTND.
Harvard: U.S. Supreme Court, 'Syllabus' in Socialist Workers Party v. Attorney General, 419 U.S. 1314 (1974). cited in 1974, 419 U.S. 1314. Original Sources, retrieved 24 November 2024, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=8TH4X5S1CD1HTND.
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