Opinion ID: 1494037
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Heading: As to Exclusion and Removal of Individuals from Jersey City.

Text: Individuals coming into or going about a city upon their lawful concerns must be allowed free locomotion upon the streets and public places. Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States provides, inter alia, that No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States;   . There is no doubt that the right of an individual to pass with freedom of movement and without molestation between the States of the Union is one of the privileges of federal citizens which is protected by this clause. As was stated in Williams v. Fears, 179 U.S. 270, 274, 21 S.Ct. 128, 129, 45 L.Ed. 186, Undoubtedly the right of locomotion, the right to remove from one place to another according to inclination, is an attribute of personal liberty, and the right, ordinarily, of free transit from or through the territory of any state is a right secured by the 14th Amendment and by other provisions of the Constitution. See Crandall v. Nevada, 6 Wall. 35, 36, 18 L.Ed. 745; Colgate v. Harvey, 296 U. S. 404, 56 S.Ct. 252, 80 L.Ed. 299, 102 A. L.R. 54; United States v. Miller, D.C., 17 F.Supp. 65, 67; Marcus Brown Holding Co. v. Pollak, D.C., 272 F. 137, 141; In re Ah Fong, 1 Fed.Cas., pp. 213, 217, No. 102; Twining v. New Jersey, 211 U.S. 78, 97, 29 S.Ct. 14, 53 L.Ed. 97. The record before us shows numerous instances where CIO sympathizers were removed from Jersey City by police officers acting with the approval of the appellants. The findings of fact of the trial court in this regard are fully supported by the evidence and injunctive relief was properly granted.