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· 10/2/2019

MAUREEN STOYKA v. MARY GRECZ

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  • holding that since Bivens claim was 10 not extended there was no need to review issue of qualified immunity
  • dismissing plaintiff’s Bivens claim even though the Bivens issue was not raised in the district court and the district court did not sua sponte address it
  • finding the claim differed meaningfully from Bivens because (1) the incident took place in a parking lot rather than the plaintiff’s home, (2) the Department of Homeland Security (DHS
  • “This case arose in a parking lot, not a private home as was the case in Bivens.”
  • “[A]lthough Byrd alleges violations of the Fourth Amendment, as did the plaintiff in Bivens, Byrd’s lawsuit differs from Bivens in several meaningful ways.”
  • “Because we do not extend Bivens to [the plaintiff’s] lawsuit, we need not address whether [the defendant] is entitled to qualified immunity.”

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