Webster v. Wainwright

How courts have described this case

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

• rejecting class status under 1985(3) when the plaintiff alleged only that he was \a political opponent of the defendants and was extremely vocal in his opposition to their management of the [municipality]\
• “It is worth noting that the complaint does not disclose who besides Gleason may belong to this purported class.”
• “those who are in political and philosophical opposition to [the defendants], and who are, in addition, outspoken in their criticism of the [defendants’] political and governmental attitudes and activities do not constitute a cognizable class under section 1985”
• explicitly refusing to decide viability of Keating

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).