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Legal Citation: 106 U.S. 629 (1883)

Plaintiff
United States

Defendant
R. G. Harris, et al.

Plaintiff's Claim
A federal civil rights statute making it a crime for two or more persons to conspire to deprive another person of the equal protection of the laws or of equal privileges or immunities under the laws is constitutional.

Chief Lawyer for Plaintiff
Samuel F. Phillips, U.S. Solicitor General

Chief Defense Lawyer
None

Justices for the Court
Samuel Blatchford, Joseph P. Bradley, Stephen Johnson Field, Horace Gray, John Marshall Harlan I, Stanley Matthews, Samuel Freeman Miller, Morrison Remick Waite, William Burnham Woods (writing for the Court)

Justices Dissenting
None

Place
Washington, D.C.

Date of Decision
22 January 1883

Decision
That the federal...