Legal Opinion
Versie Kimble v. D. J. McDuffy Inc. And Industrial Foundation of the South, and All of Its Subscribers
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 18, 1981No. 78-1474PublishedCited by 94 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
AINSWORTH, Circuit Judge:
The appellant, Versie Kimble, sued D.J. McDuffy, Inc., his former employer, along with several other employers in the oil drilling industry and an association of such employers, in a class action alleging that they conspired to deny him and others employment because they had filed personal injury suits or workmen’s compensation claims against employers in the industry. Kimble maintained that 42 U.S.C. § 1985(2),1 a Reconstruction era statute intended to curtail the activities of the Ku Klux Klan, created a federal cause of action for anyone injured by another as a…
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