Canlis v. San Joaquin Sheriff's Posse Comitatus

GRANT, Senior District Judge:

This is an appeal from an Order of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California dismissing a civil rights action brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983, 1985.1 The question before this court is whether the district court erred in dismissing the complaint for failure to state a claim upon which relief could be granted.2

Appellants’ complaint, filed August 30, 1976, is founded upon various incidents which occurred during the late summer and early fall of 1975 when the United Farm Workers of America (UFW) were seeking to organize farm workers…