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LIUZZO v. UNITED STATES

Civ. A. No. 79-60014.

565 F.Supp. 640 (1983)

Anthony LIUZZO, Jr., Thomas Liuzzo, Penny Liuzzo Dupure, Mary Liuzzo and Sally Liuzzo, Individually and as representatives of the Estate of Viola Liuzzo, deceased, Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant.

United States District Court, E.D. Michigan, S.D.

May 27, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Grant J. Gruel, Grand Rapids, Mich., Francis Hare, Jr., R. Gordon Pate, Birmingham, Ala., Margie Tyler Searcy, Tuscaloosa, Ala., J. Jeffrey Long, Ann Arbor, Mich., Robert J. Riley, Anthony A. Derezinski, Grand Rapids, Mich., Joseph W. Cotchett, San Mateo, Cal., Dean A. Robb, Traverse City, Mich., for plaintiffs.

Ann Robertson, Alan Mishael, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., L. Michael Wickes, Detroit, Mich., for defendant.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

JOINER, District Judge.

This action concerns the death of a woman from Detroit as she was assisting in the transportation of civil rights marchers on the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March in 1965. Mrs. Liuzzo was shot and killed on the evening of March 25, 1965, as she was driving one of the marchers back to Montgomery from Selma. The shots were fired from a car containing four members of the Ku Klux Klan. One of the persons...

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