Legal Opinion
Merriweather v. Zamora
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided June 24, 2009No. 08-1570PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
JULIA SMITH GIBBONS, Circuit Judge.
Seven defendants who worked in the mailroom at the Milan, Michigan Federal Detention Center appeal from the order of the district court refusing to dismiss plaintiff Robert Merriweather’s Bivens complaint based upon qualified immunity. See Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388, 91 S.Ct. 1999, 29 L.Ed.2d 619 (1971). The defendants argue that the district court improperly denied qualified immunity because they violated no clearly established constitutional right of Merriweather’s and their actions, if not a…
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- Wolff v. McDonnellSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
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