Legal Opinion
Alan Aulson Et Ux. Maureen Aulson v. Charles Blanchard
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 25, 1996No. 95-2233PublishedCited by 705 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
This appeal demands that we mull the prerequisites for liability under the Ku Klux Klan Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1985(3) (1994). We hold that (1) the class-based animus required to ground a private right of action under the statute applies to conspiracies allegedly involving public officials in the same way as it applies to all other conspiracies; and (2) the requirement is not satisfied where, as here, no sufficiently defined class appears. Accordingly, we affirm the district court’s dismissal of the action.
I. BACKGROUND
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