Opinion ID: 3010985
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Heading: 42 u.s.c. s 1985 claim

Text: Plaintiff also alleges that two of the individual police officers who chased Cook violated 42 U.S.C. S 1985 (1994) by filing false or misleading statements to investigators about their conduct on the night of the accident in an attempt to hide their culpable conduct. The only provision of S 1985 that could be relevant to plaintiff 's allegation is the second part of S 1985(2), which prohibits conspiracy to 6 obstruct justice with the intent to deny equal protection of the laws. Because plaintiff does not allege that the officers colluded with the requisite  `racial, or .. . otherwise classbased, invidiously discriminatory animus,'  see Kush v. Rutledge, 460 U.S. 719, 725 (1983) (quoting Griffin v. Breckenridge, 403 U.S. 88, 102 (1971)), the district court correctly dismissed this claim.