Ex parte Yarbrough

Ex parte Yarbrough
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 23–24, 1884 Decided March 3, 1884
Full case name	Ex parte Yarbrough
Citations	110 U.S. 651 (more)
Holding
Congress may prevent private individuals from interfering with the right to vote in federal elections.
Court membership
Chief Justice Morrison Waite Associate Justices Samuel F. Miller · Stephen J. Field Joseph P. Bradley · John M. Harlan William B. Woods · Stanley Matthews Horace Gray · Samuel Blatchford
Case opinion
Majority	Miller, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
Article I, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution and the Fifteenth Amendment

Ex parte Yarbrough (also known as the Ku Klux Cases), 110 U.S. 651 (1884), was a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States involving Congress's power to punish individuals who interfere with the right to vote in federal elections. The Court sustained the convictions of Jasper Yarbrough and seven others, who had been found guilty of beating and injuring an African-American man to prevent him from voting. The decision marked one of the few times that the post-Reconstruction Court upheld Congress's ability to protect civil rights.