Ninth Circuit· 7/30/1987

Schowengerdt v. General Dynamics Corp.

Citations

823 F.2d 1328
2 I.E.R. Cas. (BNA) 545

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holding that private corporation employed by Department of Navy to provide security services would be subject to Bivens claims if, on remand, its actions were found to constitute federal action
searches of plaintiff’s office conducted by Navy security investigators and an Executive Officer and Acting Naval Plant Representative
“The agency is the only proper party to such a suit; the civil remedy provisions do not apply to individual defendants.”
the agency is the only proper defendant in a civil action under the Privacy Act
“the scope of the inquiry must be no broader than necessary ...[,] if the depth of the inquiry or extent of the seizure exceeded that necessary for the government’s legitimate purposes, ... the search would be unreasonable”
“Fourth Amendment privacy interests do not, however, turn on property interests .... the [United States Supreme] Court rejected the contention that those who seek to invoke Fourth Amendment protections must have a property right in the area searched”

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Judges: Fletcher, Hall, Nelson

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