Case Categories: Expressive Association

• Boy Scouts of America v. Dale (2000)

  Boy Scouts of America v. Dale (2000) ruled that the Boy Scouts had the First Amendment expressive association right to revoke the membership of a gay assistant...

• City of Chicago v. Morales (1999)

  City of Chicago v. Morales (1999) invalidated a gang loitering ordinance, saying it was too vague. A lower court said the ordinance violated the First Amendment...

• City of Dallas v. Stanglin (1989)

  City of Dallas v. Stanglin (1989) said that social dancing is not an expressive association protected by the First Amendment when upholding age limits on teen...

• NAACP v. Alabama (1958)

  In NAACP v. Alabama (1958), the Court ruled that the First Amendment protected the free association rights of the NAACP and its rank-and-file members...

• New York State Club Association, Inc. v. City of New York (1988)

  New York State Club Association, Inc. v. City of New York (1988) held that a city ordinance prohibiting discrimination in places of public accommodation was...

• Roberts v. United States Jaycees (1984)

  Roberts v. United States Jaycees (1984) was the first Supreme Court decision to balance the First Amendment right of association with anti-discrimination laws...

• Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (2006)

  The Supreme Court unanimously ruled in 2006 that conditioning university funding on allowing military recruiters on campus is not an unconstitutional violation...