Kam-Almaz v. United States

ORDER/OPINION

BASKIR, Judge.

Plaintiff seeks compensation for losses occasioned by the seizure of his laptop computer by U.S. Customs agents. Plaintiff has failed to offer a valid theory of recovery in this Court, so we GRANT the Government’s Motion to Dismiss.

I. Introduction

According to an editorial in The New York Times of November 15, 2010, during an 18-month period between 2008 and 2010, some 3,000 returning Americans had their laptop computers seized and their contents examined by U.S. Customs. Moreover, as was the case with Mr. Kam Almaz, U.S. Customs agents may freely share the data from…