Edward C. Lawson
African American civil rights activist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other people with the same name, see Edward Lawson.
Edward C. Lawson was an African American civil rights activist, who was the respondent in the case of Kolender v. Lawson, 461 U.S. 352 (1983), in which the United States Supreme Court ruled that a California statute authorizing a police officer to arrest a person for refusing to present identification was unconstitutionally vague.