No list of party members was filed. and in 1965 the first test case Albertson against SACB. was decided by the High Court. The Court ruled that the SACB order to register violated the petitioners fifth amendment privilege against selfincrimination. In other words. the Boards powers visavis individual members of the party were defunct. Later in 1965. cases involving the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born and the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade were remanded by the Supreme Court for new hearings. The cases against these two supposed Communist front organizations had begun in the early 1950s. Normal adjudication procedures had taken so long that the Court felt the evidence in the two cases was stale in 1965.
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