WILKINSON v. FORST

No. 352 Docket 86-7631.

832 F.2d 1330 (1987)

Bill WILKINSON and James Farrands, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Lester FORST, Donald Long, Austin McGuigan and the City of Meriden, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided November 9, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shelly White, Hartford, Conn., Matthew Horowitz, Springfield, Mass. (Martha Stone, Connecticut Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Hartford, Conn., of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellees.

Carl Schuman, Senior Appellate Attorney, Assistant State's Attorney, Office of the Chief State's Attorney, Division of Criminal Justice, Wallingford, Conn. (Joseph I. Lieberman, Atty. Gen., State of Conn., Stephen J. O'Neill, Asst. Atty. Gen., Richard T. Biggar, Asst. Atty. Gen., John J. Kelly, Chief State's Atty., Scott J. Murphy, Asst. State's Atty., James J. Szerejko, Halloran, Sage, Phelon & Haggerty, Hartford, Conn., of counsel), for defendants-appellants Lester J. Forst, Commissioner of Public Safety, and Donald Long, former Commissioner of Public Safety, of the State of Connecticut.

John M. Massameno, Asst. State's Atty., Senior Appellate Attorney, State of Conn., Wallingford, Conn., (Thomas H. Hrusa, Roseanne Wagner, Mitchell Goldklang, Law Student Interns, of counsel), for defendant-appellant Austin J. McGuigan, former Chief State's Attorney of the State of Connecticut.

Corporation Counsel, City of Meriden, for defendant-appellant City of Meriden.

Before KAUFMAN, WINTER and MAHONEY, Circuit Judges.


MAHONEY, Circuit Judge:

Defendants appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (Jose A. Cabranes, Judge) enjoining them from indiscriminately searching persons and automobiles at rallies held in the State of Connecticut by the Invisible Empire of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan ("Klan") in the absence of either (1) "specific and articulable" facts to support a reasonable...

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