Christopher Lee Vail v. the State of Texas

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the presence of one special factor is “sufficient to preclude the availability of a Bivens remedy”
• finding that “the clearing of protestors from a public park by federal law enforcement” presented a new context
• “Because the presence of one special factor is sufficient to preclude the availability of a Bivens remedy, we do not reach Appellees’ other … arguments[.]”
• “The ‘new context’ inquiry considers only prior Supreme Court—not lower court—precedent.”
• declining to address the defendants’ arguments about other special factors

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).