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ACTION v. Gannon
United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
450 F.2d 1227 (1971)
- Written by Salina Kennedy, JD
Facts
Over a series of weeks, members of ACTION (defendant), a Black-power group, staged protests disrupting the Sunday services of a predominantly White Catholic church. The ACTION members shouted a series of demands and warned parishioners that services would continue to be disrupted until the demands were met. The church and its members (plaintiffs) sought an injunction in federal court. The district court granted permanent injunctive relief in order to protect the parishioners’ free exercise of their religion, reasoning that 42 U.S.C. § 1985 allowed the court to enjoin race-based private conspiracies. ACTION appealed.
Rule of Law
Issue
Holding and Reasoning (Heaney, J.)
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