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Joint Anti-facist Refugee Comittee V. McgrathIn Joint Anti-Facist Refugee Comittee v. McGrath, The Attorney General, acting under part three of Executive Order 9835, submitted information on several organizations to the Loyalty Review Board which then declared the organizations to be supporting subversive causes or movements. Under section 9A of the Hatch Act, this information was disseminated among the agencies of the government. The Anti-Facist Refugee Comittee was collecting money to distribute among members of the struggle against Francisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War and World War Two. The District Courts and Appeals Courts had ruled that the organizations could not sue because there was no specified way to redress their greivances in the case. The Supreme Court ruled that the organizations did have the right to bring the case even without specified methods for redress. The Court also resolved that the Attorney General exceeded his authority under Executive Order 9835, and that the dissemination of such blacklists immediately violated the due process clause by disregarding a hearing to those whose names appeared on the blacklist. Justice Black offered a concurring opinion in which he compares government blacklists to bill of attainder. He appends a passage from the footnotes of the historian Macaulay's History of England from the Accession of James the Second describing the evils of the great Act of Attainder enacted at the behest of James II.
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