The Enforcement Act of 1871 (17 Stat. 13), also known as the Ku Klux Klan Act, Third Enforcement Act, Third Ku Klux Klan Act, Civil Rights Act of 1871, or...

The Second Enforcement Act of 1871, sometimes called the Civil Rights Act of 1871 or the Second Ku Klux Klan Act, was a United States federal law. The...

throughout the United States. The act was the first of three Enforcement Acts passed by the United States Congress in 1870 and 1871, during the Reconstruction...

officially broken. The Enforcement Acts were a series of acts, but it was not until the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, the third Enforcement Act, that their regulations...

one of its members on the theory that the office provided inadequate training. In 1984, John Thompson, a 22-year-old African American father of two,...

1981. First, the Court undertook a fresh review of the legislative history of the Civil Rights Act of 1871, now codified as 42 U.S.C. §1983 that Monroe v...

sued under Section 1983 of the Ku Klux Klan Act (codified at 42 U.S.C. § 1983) to enforce the Federal Nursing Home Amendments Act of 1987 (FNHRA) against...

Owen v. City of Independence, 445 U.S. 622 (1980), was a case decided by the United States Supreme Court, in which the court held that a municipality has...

demonstrate that he was discharging the protected function when performing the act for which liability is asserted." Despite its immediate application to White...

surprising that a legitimate policy directing law enforcement to arrest and detain individuals because of their suspected link to the attacks would produce...