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ABBREVIATIONS

• ACLU — American Civil Liberties Union
• Admr — Administrator
• aff'd — affirmed, i.e., higher court aff'd lower court decision
• a/k/a — also known as
• App — Appeal/Appellate
• App Div — NY Supreme Court, Appellate Division
• Assn — Association
• Asst — Assistant
• Atty — Attorney
• Atty Genl — Attorney General
• Auth — Authority
• Bd — Board
• Bd of Educ — Board of Education/School Board
• Bd of Pub Inst — Board of Public Instruction
• Bd of Reg — Board of Regents/Registrars
• Bd of Trs — Board of Trustees
• Bhd/Bro — Brotherhood
• CA — US Court of Appeals
• (CA 1) — US Court of Appeals, First Circuit (there are 11 circuits)
• (CA DC) — US Court of Appeals for District of Columbia Circuit
• CD — Central District, e.g., CD Calif: fed'l district court for Central District of California
• cert den/cd — certiorari denied, i.e., higher court refused to hear case
• cert grant/cg — certiorari granted, i.e., higher court agreed to hear case
• Cir Ct — Circuit Court (of county)
• Civ — Civil
• Co — County/Company
• CO — Conscientious Objector
• COFO — Council of Federated Organizations
• Comm — Committee/Commission
• Commn/Comm — Commission
• Commr — Commissioner
• Comp — Complainant, one who filed a complaint
• Com Pleas — Common Pleas Court
• CORE — Congress of Racial Equality
• Crim — Criminal
• Ct — Court
• Ct Cl — US Court of Claims
• Ct of App — Ct of Appeal (state)
• d/b/a — doing business as
• DC — District Court (fed'l)
• DCA — District Court of Appeals (state)
• (DC DC) — District Court for the District of Columbia (fed'l)
• Def — Defendant, against whom a suit was filed
• de novo — new trial from the beginning
• Dept — Department
• Dir — Director
• dism'd/ dism — dismissed, i.e., court dismissed a case
• Dist — District
• Div — Division, e.g., fed'l district court for Eastern Div of a state
• ED — Eastern District, e.g., ED NC: fed'l district court for Eastern District of North Carolina
• Educ — Education
• EEOC — Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (fed'l)
• et al — and others
• ex rel — on the petition of
• FCC — Federal Communications Commission
• fed'l — federal
• FEPC — Fair Employment Practices Commission
• FHA — Federal Housing Administration
• Gov't — Government
• habeas corpus — petition for release of prisoner
• HEW — US Dept of Health, Education and Welfare
• HUAC — House Comm on UnAmerican Activities (now HISC)
• Imm & Nat Serv — Immigration & Naturalization Service
• Imm Serv — Immigration & Naturalization Service
• in re — in regard to
• INS — Immigration & Naturalization Service
• Inst — Instruction
• Int — Intervenor
• Intl/Int'l — International
• IRS — Internal Revenue Service
• Jud — Judicial
• KKK — Ku Klux Klan
• MCLL — Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Library
• MD — Middle District, e.g., MD Pa: fed'l district court for Middle District of Pennsylvania
• MFDP — Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
• Muni — Municipal
• NAACP — National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
• Natl/Nat'l — National
• ND — Northern District, e.g., ND Ala: fed'l district court for Northern District of Alabama
• NLG — National Lawyers Guild
• NLRB — National Labor Relations Board
• OEO — Office of Economic Opportunity: Legal Service offices
• Pet — Petitioner, who filed a case
• Pjn/prob juris noted — USSC noted probable jurisdiction—agreed to hear case
• Pl — Plaintiff, who filed a case
• Prof — Professor
• Pub — Public
• re — regarding, in the matter of
• Ref — Referee in administrative proceeding
• Reg — Registrar/Registrant/Regents/Regulation
• Rel — Relator
• rem — remanded case to a lower court
• Resp — Respondent, against whom Pet filed a case
• rev'd — reversed decision of a lower court
• RR/Ry — Railroad/Railway
• SACB — Subversive Activities Control Board
• SCLC — Southern Christian Leadership Conference
• SD — Southern District, e.g., SD NY: fed'l district court for Southern District of New York
• Secy/Sec'y — Secretary
• Sen — Senate
• Sep — Separate, as in Sep School District
• SNCC — Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
• Spec Sess — Court of Special Sessions
• SSS — Selective Service System
• sub nom — under the name of
• Sup Ct — Supreme Court (of a state)
• Super Ct — Superior Court
• Trs — Trustees
• Unemp Ins App Bd — Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board
• USSC — United States Supreme Court
• v — versus
• VA — Veterans Administration
• vac — vacated a previous decision by a lower court
• vac and rem — vacated and remanded
• vac as moot — vacated as moot
• WD — Western District, e.g., WD Ark: fed'l district court for Western District of Arkansas
• YMCA — Young Men's Christian Association