Court Opinion

ID: 9457553
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 20:24:59.164212+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:35:23.734106
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*1239MEHAFFY, Circuit Judge
(concurring).
The result in this case is compelled by Griffin v. Breckenridge, 403 U.S. 88, 91 S.Ct. 1790, 29 L.Ed.2d 338 (1971), since it is entirely clear that the defendants disrupted the church services and in so doing there was racial invidious discriminatory animus behind the conspirators’ action. I therefore abide that mandate and concur in the result. However, I do not agree with the logic of the majority opinion in reaching this result as it involves an expansion of the reach of the Fourteenth Amendment. I would rest the decision solely on Griffin v. Breckenridge, supra.