Illinois v. United States Civil Service Commission

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that private corporation employed by Department of Navy to provide security services would be subject to Bivens claims if, on remand, its actions were found to constitute federal action
• searches of plaintiff’s office conducted by Navy security investigators and an Executive Officer and Acting Naval Plant Representative
• “The agency is the only proper party to such a suit; the civil remedy provisions do not apply to individual defendants.”
• the agency is the only proper defendant in a civil action under the Privacy Act
• “the scope of the inquiry must be no broader than necessary ...[,] if the depth of the inquiry or extent of the seizure exceeded that necessary for the government’s legitimate purposes, ... the search would be unreasonable”
• “Fourth Amendment privacy interests do not, however, turn on property interests .... the [United States Supreme] Court rejected the contention that those who seek to invoke Fourth Amendment protections must have a property right in the area searched”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).