Although it succeeded in preventing the reissue of the patent, the executive committee of the NPA became discouraged, and the group disbanded in 1876 because of a lack of interest.

American daguerreotype pioneers also attended the early PAA conventions, including John H. Fitzgibbon.

Previously, all association business had been conducted by those who happened to attend conventions, resulting in problems of organizational continuity.

The Congress continued until 1929, when the National Council became the official governing body, representing 37 associations and clubs nationwide.

By 1934, association leaders were spearheading efforts to build membership and combat price-cutting under the National Recovery Act, which was signed into law that year.

When Olive asked the University to pay for the use, they refused and told him they were shielded from suit because of sovereign immunity, which protects state government entities from many lawsuits.

[15][16][17] Those briefs proposed various doctrines under which the CRCA could validly abrogate sovereign immunity and variously re-asserted and supported the reasons why Congress examined and enacted CRCA, claiming that Congress was fair in finding that states had abused immunity and that an alternative remedy was needed.

[18] On November 5, 2019, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Allen v. Cooper.