DONALDSON v. FARRAKHAN


436 Mass. 94 (2002)

MARCELINE DONALDSON & another v. LOUIS FARRAKHAN & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

February 13, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gretchen Van Ness for the plaintiffs.

Denzil D. McKenzie (Wilbur P. Edwards, Jr., & Abdul Arif Muhammad with him) for the defendants.

Present (SITTING AT SALEM): MARSHALL, C.J., GREANEY, IRELAND, SPINA, COWIN, SOSMAN, & COADY, JJ.


IRELAND, J.

The plaintiffs, Marceline Donaldson and Robert A. Bennett, claim the defendants, Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam, Don Muhammad, and Muhammad's Mosque No. 11 (mosque) violated their civil rights under G. L. c. 272, §§ 92A and 98, when Marceline Donaldson was refused admittance to the Strand Theatre (theatre) on the night of a speech by Louis Farrakhan.3 The defendants...

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