The
lynching of Michael Donald in Mobile, Alabama in 1981 was one of the
last lynchings in the United States. Several Ku Klux Klan (KKK) members beat and killed Michael Donald, a young African-American man, and hung his body from a tree.
The original complaint was considered too vague to hold up, but Judge
Alex T. Howard Jr. helped refine the legal theory of "agency," which held the Klan accountable for the acts of its members. This prevented the case from being dismissed before it could go to the jury.
[15] In 1987 the Klan was found civilly liable by an all-white jury and sentenced to damages of $7 million in the wrongful-death verdict in the case.
[14] The settlement bankrupted the United Klans of America. The suit became a precedent for civil legal action against other racist hate groups in the United States.
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