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The law was originally enacted, with slightly different phrasing, in Section 6 of the Enforcement Act of 1870. [3]: 913 The statutory text was revised in 1909 and in 1948, when it became Section 241 of Title 18 of the U.S. Code. [4]: 236 Conspiracy against rights was initially invoked against vigilante groups like the Ku Klux Klan that acted to prevent recently-emancipated Black Southerners ...
18 u.s.c. § 241 Williams , 341 U.S. 70 (1951), is a decision by the United States Supreme Court that provides that 18 U.S.C. § 241 (protecting US citizens' Fourteenth Amendment rights from individuals sworn to uphold laws) may be applied only to federal cases and is not available to state governments.
§ 241. Conspiracy against rights § 242. Deprivation of rights under color of law § 243. Exclusion of jurors on account of race or color § 244. Discrimination against person wearing uniform of armed forces § 245. Federally protected activities § 246. Deprivation of relief benefits § 247.
Justice Douglas reversed for a 5-3 majority. He held that the provisions of 207(b) of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 making the remedies provided in Title II of the Act the exclusive means of enforcing rights based on such part do not preclude a criminal prosecution of the defendants under 18 USC 241, since the exclusive-remedy provision applies only to enforcement of substantive rights to ...
Federal statute 18 USC § 241 is a Civil War-era statute that makes it unlawful for two or more people to “conspire to injury, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person” in the free exercise ...
Section 101 holds that Chapter 13, civil rights, title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting a new section (Section 245) called Federally protected activities. It establishes that this section isn't set as an intent on the part of Congress, or is constructed to limited the authority of Federal officers (or Federal grand jury) to ...
The deprivation of rights under color of law is a federal criminal offense which occurs when any person, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person on any U.S. territory or possession to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or to different punishments ...
Conspiracy against the United States, or conspiracy to defraud the United States, [1] is a federal offense in the United States of America under 18 U.S.C. § 371.The statute originated under a federal law enacted in 1867 that was codified in the Revised Statutes of the United States in 1874, [2] in a subsequent codification of federal penal statutes in 1909, [3] and ultimately in the United ...