Leon Fletcher v. the State of Texas

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• concluding that prior suit against one FBI agent did not preclude later suit against his supervisor regarding same incident because both were sued in personal capacity and thus were not privies
• stating that FBI officials sued in their individual capacities are not in privity with an FBI agent who was sued in his official capacity in an earlier suit
• FBI informant and officials sued in individual capacities not in privity with FBI agent who was defendant in prior unsuccessful Bivens -type action
• “We can discern no basis for holding that all F.B.I. agents and informants, sued individually for their own acts or inactions, are in privity for res judicata purposes.”
• government employees sued in their individual capacities are not in privity with another employee of the agency who was previously sued in his individual capacity
• The victim 'was a 'member[] of the general public, living in a free society, and having no special custodial or other relationship with' the F.B.I.'

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).