(Download) "Browder V. Tipton" by Sixth Circuit. United States Court Of Appeals * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Browder V. Tipton
- Author : Sixth Circuit. United States Court Of Appeals
- Release Date : January 30, 1980
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 58 KB
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The question on appeal is whether causing the false arrest of an adversary in a labor dispute violates the provisions of the Anti-Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, 42 U.S.C. § 1985(3). That law makes it a federal tort for a private group to "conspire or go in disguise on the highway or on the premises of another for the purpose of depriving . . . any . . . class of persons of the equal protection of the laws, or of equal privileges and immunities under the laws" (emphasis added). We hold that the class of individuals protected by the "equal protection of the laws" language of the statute are those so-called "discrete and insular" minorities that receive special protection under the Equal Protection Clause because of inherent personal characteristics. The persons protected under the "equal privileges and immunities" language of the statute are those individuals who join together as a class for the purpose of asserting certain fundamental rights. These classes do not include picket line crossers who are falsely arrested.