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. ° Nos. 77-1698, 77-1210 & 77-1370 128 they have injured when they have discharged their duties of office in a way that is known to them to violate the United States Constitution or in a manner that they should know transgresses a clearly established consti- tutional rule. The result would be the same where the actions were manifestly beyond their line of duty.’ I am saying, however, that a wide-ranging witch- hunting type of assault on public servants across the board should receive the most careful judicial attention.® I don’t think the present case can withstand that scrutiny, the focus of which must be on the situation as it existed. at the time of the events in question. A true Copy: Teste: Clerk of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit 4 Nor, I should add, do I intend anything said herein, to minimize the importance of lawyers accepting unpopular civil cases. Accepting such employment often requires a solid exercise of courage, but I regard doing so as one of the obligations assumed by a person who has been admitted to the practice of law. 5 The pendulum has taken a far swing from the days of McCarthyism but the extremes of the swing seem to me to be equally undesirable for the good of the country. Unfortunately many who decried the excesses of McCarthyism do not seem equally concerned by the development of the extremity of pageant day witchhunting directed toward law enforcement officials. USCA 4412—Midwest Law Printing Co., Ine.. Chicago—4-23-7T9—400