Brooks v. United States. Richardson v. United States

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that members of the Ku Klux Klan who seized a couple to tell them to “stop living together and making liquor” and to instead “attend church” violated the Federal Kidnapping Act
• holding that members of the Ku Klux Klan who seized a couple to tell them to “stop living together and making liquor” and to instead “attend church” violated the Federal Kidnapping Act
• abduction by Klansmen of couple who were transported to lonely spot and given a flogging, told to attend church and to stop living together and making liquor
• abduction by Klansmen of couple who were transported to lonely spot and given a flogging, told to attend church and to stop living together and making liquor
• KKK members’ intent to whip a man and woman and tell them to “stop living together and making liquor and to attend church” was an adequate benefit

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).