Court Opinion

ID: 9653541
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 17:48:24.306994+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:12:59.903564
License: Public Domain

WALLER, Circuit Judge
(specially concurring).
It is my view that Section 52 of Title 18 U.S.C.A., is an anti-discrimination statute, under which it must be alleged and shown that the deprivation of federal right was on account of the alienage, race or color of the deprivee, but the contrary was held in United States v. Classic, 313 U.S. 299, 61 S.Ct. 1031, 85 L.Ed. 1368, which holding I, unapprovingly, must follow. In the present state of the law, as construed by the Supreme Court, the petition for rehearing is properly denied. The recent decision in Snowden v. Hughes, 64 S.Ct. 397, by that court, is not in conflict with the views expressed by this court in the former opinion in this case.