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GREAT AMERICAN FED. S. & L. ASSN. v. NOVOTNY

No. 78-753.

442 U.S. 366 (1979)

GREAT AMERICAN FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION ET AL. v. NOVOTNY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 11, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eugene K. Connors argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the briefs was Walter G. Bleil.

Stanley M. Stein argued the cause and filed a brief for respondent.

Deputy Solicitor General Wallace argued the cause for the United States et al. as amici curiae urging affirmance. On the brief were Solicitor General McCree, Assistant Attorney General Days, Louis F. Claiborne, Walter W. Barnett, Mildred M. Matesich, Lutz Alexander Prager, and Paul E. Mirengoff.*

Isabelle Katz Pinzler filed a brief for the American Civil Liberties Union et al. as amici curiae urging affirmance.

MR. JUSTICE STEWART delivered the opinion of the Court.

More than a century after their passage, the Civil Rights Acts of the Reconstruction Era continue to present difficult problems of statutory construction. Cf. Chapman v. Houston Welfare Rights Org., 441 U.S. 600. In the case now before us, we consider the scope of 42 U. S. C. § 1985 (3) (1976 ed., Supp. II), the surviving...

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