Henry Platsky v. Central Intelligence Agency, Henry Platsky v. U.S. Department of Justice, Fbi and Department of Defense, Defense Intelligence Agency

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a district court should not have dismissed a pro se plaintiff’s complaints without affording him leave to replead
• “[J]urisdictional limitations permit a plaintiff to sue only the federal government officials responsible for violating the plaintiff’s constitutional rights; a plaintiff cannot sue the agency for which the officials work.”
• “[I]n Bivens actions, jurisdictional limitations permit a plaintiff to sue only the federal government officials responsible for violating the plaintiffs constitutional rights; a plaintiff cannot sue the agency for which the officials work”
• district courts must construe pro se Complaints liberally

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).