John Doe v. Donald Rumsfeld

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a plaintiff’s claim must be dismissed in the absence of an implied cause of action under Bivens
• explaining that where Congress has legislated in an area but failed to provide a private cause of action for damages, “[i]t would be inappropriate for this Court to presume to supplant Congress’s judgment in a field so decidedly entrusted to its purview.”
• “The Supreme Court has never implied a Bivens remedy in a case involving the military, national security, or intelligence.”
• “The Supreme Court has never implied a Bivens remedy in a case involving the military, national security, or intelligence.”
• “In the context of national security and intelligence, the Court has cautioned that matters -... are rarely proper subjects for judicial intervention.”
• “[T]he DTA created no private cause of action. Neither in that Act nor any other has Congress extended a cause of action for detainees to sue federal military and government officials in federal court for their treatment while in detention.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).