Legal Opinion · Concurrence
The Black Panther Party v. William French Smith, Attorney General of the United States
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided July 8, 1981No. 80-1302Published
1ConcurrenceMacKINNON, Circuit Judge
in part and dissenting in part).
The Black Panther Party and its co-plaintiffs seek $100 million in compensatory and punitive damages from a number of former and present United States officials and employees who, beginning in 1967, allegedly participated in a covert action program (code named COINTELPRO) designed to destroy the Black Panther Party. COINTELPRO was started in the wake of the “long hot summer of 1967,” when internal violence in the United States reached epidemic proportions and law enforcement agencies and national guard units throughout the nation were severely taxed to combat…
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