{"id":27709,"date":"2017-06-20T07:19:18","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T12:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=27709"},"modified":"2017-06-20T07:19:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T12:19:27","slug":"scotus-bivens-actions-must-be-extended-by-congress-and-qi-applies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=27709","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUS: Bivens actions must be extended by Congress, and QI applies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bivens actions beyond what the Supreme Court has already found must be found by Congress and not the courts. Qualified immunity applies as in 1983 actions: \u201cThe qualified-immunity inquiry turns on the \u2018objective legal reasonableness\u2019 of the official\u2019s acts, Harlow v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. 800, 819, \u2018assessed in light of the legal rules that were \u2018clearly established\u2019 at the time [the action] was taken,\u2019 Anderson v. Creighton, 483 U.S. 635, 639.\u201d  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/16pdf\/15-1358_6khn.pdf\">Ziglar v. Abbasi<\/a>, 2017 U.S. LEXIS 3874 (June 19, 2017) (4-2).<\/p>\n<p>Amy Howe, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/2017\/06\/opinion-analysis-justices-throw-claims-federal-officials-post-september-11-case\/\">Opinion analysis: Justices throw out most claims against federal officials in post-September 11 case<\/a>, SCOTUSblog (Jun. 19, 2017, 9:03 PM)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bivens actions beyond what the Supreme Court has already found must be found by Congress and not the courts. Qualified immunity applies as in 1983 actions: \u201cThe qualified-immunity inquiry turns on the \u2018objective legal reasonableness\u2019 of the official\u2019s acts, Harlow &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=27709\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-45","category-qualified-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27709","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=27709"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27711,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27709\/revisions\/27711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}