FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge:
This court yields to none in recognizing the high place in our legal system held by § 1 of the Enforcement Act of 1871, 17 Stat. 13, now 42 U.S.C. § 1983, and the Act's jurisdictional implementation, 28 U.S.C. § 1343(3). It would be hard to think of any more compelling task for a federal court than "to redress the deprivation, under color of any State law, statute, ordinance, regulation, custom or usage, of any right, privilege...
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