Patterson v. City of New Orleans

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Bivens claims against the Acting Director and other high-level BOP officials had to be administratively exhausted
• dismissing Bivens claim where Plaintiff failed to explain “how such high-level officials contributed to or knew about the conduct described in his Complaint”
• “[U]nder Bivens, a federal official may not be held liable simply because he is in a position of authority over the alleged individual offender.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).