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Supreme Court· 1/10/2012

Minneci v. Pollard

Citations

  • 181 L. Ed. 2d 606
  • 2012 U.S. LEXIS 573
  • 132 S. Ct. 617
  • 565 U.S. 118
  • 80 U.S.L.W. 4041
  • 23 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 42
  • 2012 WL 43511

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that there is no Bivens action against employees of a private company that operates a federal prison
  • holding that \employment status – makes a critical difference\ and declining to extend Bivens claims against non-governmental prison employees
  • holding that there is no Bivens remedy against employees of private prisons and discussing the fact that the court hesitates to recognize a new Bivens remedy when alternative, effective state tort remedies exist
  • holding that the availability of state tort actions is adequate to preclude a Bivens remedy against employees of a privately operated federal prison because prisoners can still bring money-damages suits against those employees
  • recognizing that defendant’s status 18 as private employee is a new context
  • holding that a federal prisoner cannot assert a Bivens claim against a private individual employed by private entity operating federal prison because state law provides the prisoner with an alternative, adequate remedy against the private individual employee

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Alito, Breyer, Ginsburg, Kagan, Kennedy, Roberts, Scalia, Sotomayor, Thomas

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Cites

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