LINHART v. GLATFELTER

No. 83 C 1292.

584 F.Supp. 1369 (1984)

Wayne F. LINHART, Plaintiff, v. Edward GLATFELTER, individually and as Village Manager of the Village of Clarendon Hills, and The Village of Clarendon Hills, a Municipal Corporation, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, E.D.

March 30, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Terry A. Ekl, Stephen Connolly, Connolly & Ekl, P.C., Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff.

Gerald J. Brooks, Heidi H. Katz, Fawell, James & Brooks, Naperville, Ill., for defendant.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

KOCORAS, District Judge:

Despite the prescient warnings of some of its members,1 the Forty-second Congress scarcely could have realized when it enacted section 1 of the Ku Klux Klan Act of April 20, 1871, 17 Stat. 13, (now codified at 42 U.S.C. § 1983), that the law it passed to curtail the outrages perpetrated by the Klan in the Reconstruction-era South actually...

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