Albertson v. Subversive Activities Control Board

Albertson v. Subversive Activities Control Board
Albertson v. Subversive Activities Control Board
	Supreme Court of the United States
Argued October 18, 1965; Decided November 15, 1965
Full case name	Albertson, et al. v. Subversive Activities Control Board
Citations	382 U.S. 70 (more) 86 S. Ct. 194; 15 L. Ed. 2d 165; 1965 U.S. LEXIS 263
Holding
	Persons believed to be members of the Communist Party of the United States of America could not be required to register as party members with the SACB because that would violate their self-incrimination rights under the Fifth Amendment.
Court membership
	Chief Justice Earl Warren Associate Justices Hugo Black · William O. Douglas; Tom C. Clark · John M. Harlan II; William J. Brennan Jr. · Potter Stewart; Byron White · Abe Fortas
Case opinions
Majority	Brennan, joined by Warren, Black, Douglas, Clark, Harlan, Stewart, Fortas
Concurrence	Black
Concurrence	Clark
	White took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.
Laws applied
	U.S. Const. amend. V

Albertson v. Subversive Activities Control Board, 382 U.S. 70 (1965), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled on November 15, 1965, that persons (in this case, William Albertson) believed to be members of the Communist Party of the United States of America could not be required to register as party members with the Subversive Activities Control Board because the information which party members were required to submit could form the basis of their prosecution for being party members, which is a crime, and therefore deprived them of their self-incrimination rights under the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

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