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YAFFE v. POWERS

No. 71-1269.

454 F.2d 1362 (1972)

Erna YAFFE and James Hornsby, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. James E. POWERS, as Chief of Police of the Fall River Police Department and Ronald Andrade, as a Police Officer in the Fall River Police Department, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided January 26, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew H. Feinberg, Boston, Mass., with whom John Reinstein, Cambridge, Mass., Ronald F. Kehoe, C. Michael Malm, and Hausserman, Davison & Shattuck, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for appellants.

James P. McGuire, Fall River, Mass., with whom McGuire & Collias, Fall River, Mass., was on brief, for appellees.

Before ALDRICH, Chief Judge, McENTEE and COFFIN, Circuit Judges.

COFFIN, Circuit Judge.

On May 5, 1970, some two hundred citizens attended a memorial service, commencing at the campus of Bristol Community College and terminating at the post office in Fall River, Massachusetts, to protest United States military action in Cambodia and Ohio National Guard action at Kent State University. Prior to this gathering, Fall River authorities had been concerned over the activities of a "Regional Action Group" which they feared to be organizing...

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