Legal Opinion
Terry F. Browder v. Ronald D. Tipton
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided September 30, 1980No. 78-1250PublishedCited by 125 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MERRITT, Circuit Judge.
The question on appeal is whether causing the false arrest of an adversary in a labor dispute violates the provisions of the Anti-Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, 42 U.S.C. § 1985(3). That law makes it a federal tort for a private group to “conspire or go in disguise on the highway or on the premises of another for the purpose of depriving . any . . . class of persons of the equal protection of the laws, or of equal privileges and immunities under the laws" (emphasis added). We hold that the class of individuals protected by the “equal protection of the laws” language of the…
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