John Keith Blakely and John Emmett Long v. United States of America

How courts have described this case

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• holding that sovereign immunity precludes a Bivens action against federal officers or agents in their official capacity for damages
• finding that declaratory judgment was not appropriate where the plaintiffs had failed to allege that they will actually engage in conduct that will run afoul of a statute and lead to a seizure of their assets
• noting that “[u]nder the FTCA, a district court does not have jurisdiction over an action filed pursuant thereto if the plaintiff did not file an administrative claim within the two-year limitations period under 28 U.S.C. § 2401(b)”
• holding absolute immunity barred Bivens claim
• holding absolute immunity barred Bivens claim
• “[W]hen a district court dismisses claims over which it had original jurisdiction, it generally should remand state law claims to state court.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).