Nell Lynn v. Judge J. Russell McElroy

The original complaint in this case invokes the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C.A. § 1985, alleging a conspiracy to deprive the complainant of her rights, particularly her right to reveal to the proper authorities frauds (unalleged) against the United States. The defendants are a judge of the Probate Court of Jefferson County, Alabama, two judges of the Circuit Court of one of the judicial circuits in Alabama, the Circuit Solicitor, the Clerk of the Circuit Court, the Circuit Register in Chancery, and four attorneys who represented defendants in a state action for slander. The complaint was…