...a criminal provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1875 prohibiting conspiracies to deprive any person "of the equal protection of the laws or of equal privileges or immunities under the laws." 31. L. Miller, supra n.14, at 136. 32. Civil Rights Cases, 109 US 3 (1883). 33. The Court likewise...

...any right or privilege granted or secured to him by the federal Constitution or laws le or to deprive any person or class of persons of the equal protection of the laws.20 The third prohibited racial discrimination in access to inns, public conveyances, and places...

...1979. 42 USC 5 1 985(3) (1 976) slates: If two or more persons in any State or Territory conspire ... for the purpose of depriving, either directly or indirectly,...class of persons of the equal protection of the laws, ... the party so injured or deprived may have an action for the recovery of damages, occasioned by...

...two or more persons in any State or Territory conspire * * * for the purpose of depriving, eitlier directly or indirectly, any person or class of persons...equal protection of the laws, or of equal privileges and immunities under the laws ; * * * or if two or more persons conspire to prevent by force, intimidation,...

...administraBLACKMUN, J., dissenting 463 US criminal and civil liability for private conspiracies to deprive "either directly or indirectly, any person or class...equal protection of the laws or of equal privileges and immunities under the laws." Act of Apr. 20, 1871, §2, 17 Stat. 13 (current version at 42 USC §1985(3)...

...embodying that part of section 2 of the Ku Klux Act which punished conspiracies to deprive an individual or class of persons of the equal protection of the laws or to hinder state authorities in giving or securing equal protection.48 The twenty defendants in the...

...'section 1985(3) provides in pertinent part: If two or more persons . . . conspire or go in disguise on the highway or on the premises of another, for the...equal protection of the laws, or of equal privileges and immunities under the laws ... in any case of conspiracy set forth in this section, if one or more...

...RIGHTS OR PRIVILEGES "If two or more persons in any State or Territory conspire or go in disguise on the highway or on the premises of another, for the...equal protection of the laws, or of equal privileges and immunities under the laws; or for the purpose of preventing or hindering the constituted authorities...

...readily fall under the familiar terms of "two or more persons [who] conspire or go in disguise . . . for the purpose of depriving, either directly or indirectly,...class of persons of the equal protection of the laws." Rut the turn of genius came in the choice of statutes: Lenzner would not have the US attorney seek...

...redress for victims of the Ku Klux Klan imposed a civil penalty on those who conspired to deprive another person or class of persons of "the 'equal protection of the laws or of equal privileges and immunities under the laws." The Fair Housing Act of 1968 created a civil cause of action in favor...