{"id":52518,"date":"2022-06-08T12:17:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T17:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=52518"},"modified":"2022-06-09T07:20:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T12:20:12","slug":"scotusblog-court-constricts-even-if-it-does-not-quite-eliminate-damages-actions-under-bivens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=52518","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUSBlog: Court constricts, even if it does not quite eliminate, damages actions under <em>Bivens<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SCOTUSBlog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/2022\/06\/court-again-rejects-extension-of-bivens-suits-against-federal-officials\/\">Court constricts, even if it does not quite eliminate, damages actions under Bivens<\/a> by Howard M. Wasserman:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Rejecting Fourth Amendment excessive-force and First Amendment retaliation damages claims against a U.S. Border Patrol agent by a U.S. citizen for an incident on his property near the U.S.-Canada border, the Supreme Court in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/21pdf\/21-147_g31h.pdf\">Egbert v. Boule<\/a> narrowed, but did not eliminate, private civil damages actions for constitutional violations by federal officials under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents. Justice Clarence Thomas wrote for a five-justice majority; Justice Neil Gorsuch concurred in the judgment; Justice Sonia Sotomayor concurred in the judgment in part and dissented in part for Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Respondent Robert Boule is a U.S. citizen who owns and runs the Smuggler\u2019s Inn, a bed-and-breakfast abutting the Canadian border in Blaine, Washington; drives a car with a SMUGLER license plate; and worked as a confidential informant for the Customs and Border Patrol. Petitioner Erik Egbert, a Border Patrol agent, attempted to speak with a guest, newly arrived from Turkey via New York, outside the inn. When Boule asked Egbert to leave his property and attempted to intervene, Egbert shoved him to the ground; when Boule complained to Egbert\u2019s superiors, Egbert allegedly contacted the Internal Revenue Service and state agencies, resulting in a tax audit and investigations of Boule\u2019s activities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTUSBlog: Court constricts, even if it does not quite eliminate, damages actions under Bivens by Howard M. Wasserman:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-45","category-scotus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52519,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52518\/revisions\/52519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}