Legal Opinion
Pellegrino v. U.S. Transp. SEC. Admin.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided July 11, 2018No. 15-3047PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KRAUSE, Circuit Judge.
In Vanderklok v. United States , 868 F.3d 189 (3d Cir. 2017), we declined to imply a Bivens cause of action against airport screeners employed by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in part because they "typically are not law enforcement officers and do not act as such." Id. at 208 . We now must decide a related question that we anticipated, but did not resolve, in Vanderklok : whether TSA screeners are "investigative or law enforcement officers" under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA).
This question, one of first impression among the Courts of Appeals,…
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