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REICHARDT v. LIFE INS. CO. OF NORTH AMERICA

No. C-74-1179 WHO.

485 F.Supp. 56 (1979)

Martha Ellen REICHARDT, Individually and on behalf of all other women similarly situated, Plaintiff, v. LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. California.

August 22, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Law Offices of John Wynne Herron, John Wynne Herron, Geoffrey B. Stearns, Josef D. Cooper (argued), Kirk A. McKinney, Joan M. Graff, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff.

McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, Arthur R. Albrecht, Michael J. Plishner, Jack G. Knebel and Robert H. Daniels (argued), San Francisco, Cal., for Life Insurance Co. of North America.

Girvan Peck, Kelley Guest, Linda E. Shostak, Morrison, Foerster, Holloway, Clinton & Clark, San Francisco, Cal., for New York Life Ins. Co.

Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, Harlan M. Richter, Bernard Zimmerman, William Dillingham, San Francisco, Cal., for The Equitable Life Assurance Society of U. S.

Pettit, Evers & Martin, Guy O. Kornblum, Charles S. Loughran, Donald F. Miles, Andrew N. Chang, Thomas M. Herlihy, San Francisco, Cal., for Connecticut General Life Ins. Co., The Hartford Ins. Group, John Hancock Mutual Life Ins. Co. and Washington National Life Ins. Co.

Knight, Boland & Riordan, Richard J. Kilmartin, John P. Lynch, San Francisco, Cal., for Metropolitan Life Ins. Co.

OPINION

ORRICK, District Judge.

The narrow question posited by this motion to dismiss made pursuant to Rule 12(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure is whether this Court has subject matter jurisdiction over a cause of action brought against certain insurance companies under 42 U.S.C. § 1985(3) (the surviving version of § 2 of the Civil Rights Act of 1871, known as the Ku Klux Klan Act) in which it is simply alleged that plaintiff's Fourteenth...

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