DEGENS v. FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA ANTHONY ANGELO DEGENES, ) CIVIL ACTION NO. 20-971 ) Plaintiff, ) ) ) v. ) ) FEDERAL BUREAU OF ) INVESTIGATION, ) and DAVID M. HARDY, ) ) Defendants. ) MEMORANDUM OPINION I. Introduction In the complaint (ECF No. 1), pro se plaintiff Anthony Angelo DeGenes (“DeGenes”)1 contends that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) and David M. Hardy (“Hardy”), an FBI agent and section chief of the Record/Information Dissemination Section (“RIDS”) (collectively, “defendants”), committed misconduct. Specifically, DeGenes…