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Hui v. Castaneda, No. 08-1529 (U.S. Supreme Court) (559 U.S. 799; 130 S.Ct. 1845) (May 3, 2010) (Justice Sotomayor)

Loaded on May 17, 2010 published in Punch and Jurists May 17, 2010
Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Public Health Service Exemption.

Here the Court held that, based on the plain language of 42 U.S.C. ยง 233(a), employees of the Public Health Service cannot be sued personally for damages in a Bivens lawsuit, even when they are grossly negligent in treating immigrant detainees.

At first blush, this decision appears to involve the ...

 

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