{"id":19318,"date":"2015-10-24T08:07:34","date_gmt":"2015-10-24T13:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=19318"},"modified":"2015-10-24T08:07:34","modified_gmt":"2015-10-24T13:07:34","slug":"d-c-cir-bivens-does-not-apply-to-claims-about-extraterritorial-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=19318","title":{"rendered":"D.C.Cir.: Bivens does not apply to claims about extraterritorial torture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bivens does not apply to claims about extraterritorial torture. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cadc.uscourts.gov\/internet\/opinions.nsf\/E8CAF3B08FAA9E8185257EE7004E2D02\/$file\/14-5194.pdf\">Meshal v. Higgenbotham<\/a>, 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 18453 (D.C.Cir. Oct. 23, 2015):<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Faced with a shifting paradigm in which counterterrorism and criminal investigation merge, we rely on a familiar framework in an unconventional context. No court has countenanced a Bivens action in a case involving the national security and foreign policy context. And, while Bivens remedies for ill-executed criminal investigations are common, extraterritorial application is virtually unknown. We hold that in this particular new setting\u2014where the agents&#8217; actions took place during a terrorism investigation and those actions occurred overseas\u2014special factors counsel hesitation in recognizing a Bivens action for money damages.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bivens does not apply to claims about extraterritorial torture. Meshal v. Higgenbotham, 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 18453 (D.C.Cir. Oct. 23, 2015):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-45"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19319,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19318\/revisions\/19319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}