NAACP v. Alabama

In NAACP v. Alabama (1958) 357 U.S. 449, the court applied a balancing test before concluding that the state had shown no sufficiently compelling interest to require a political organization to disclose all its members. "Alabama has fallen short of showing a controlling justification for the deterrent effect on the free enjoyment of the right to associate which disclosure of membership lists is likely to have." (NAACP v. Alabama, supra, 357 U.S. at p. 466.)