United States v. Alex Delaurentis

FEINBERG, Circuit Judge:

In this extraordinary case, the United States has utilized an 1870 Civil Rights statute to prosecute three officers of a labor union for conspiring to “injure, oppress, threaten and intimidate” members of the union in the free exercise of their right not to participate in a concerted labor activity. The three defendants, Alex DeLaurentis, Hy Juvall and Willie Morales, appeal from their conviction in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, after a jury trial before John F. Dooling, Jr., J., 1 of violating 18 U.S.C. § 241. Although the…