Linhart v. Glatfelter

MEMORANDUM OPINION

KOCORAS, District Judge:

Despite the prescient warnings of some of its members, 1 the Forty-second Congress scarcely could have realized when it enacted section 1 of the Ku Klux Klan Act of April 20, 1871, 17 Stat. 13, (now codified at 42 U.S.C. § 1983), that the law it passed to curtail the outrages perpetrated by the Klan in the Reconstruction-era South actually would be used a century later to transform the federal courts into the favorite forum of litigious individuals intent on prosecuting such trivial causes, for exam-pie, as those of a high school student whose grade…