Legal Opinion
Bell v. Hood
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 1, 1946No. 344PublishedCited by 4,104 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Black
Petitioners brought this suit in a federal district court to recover damages in excess of $3,000 from the respondents who are agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The complaint alleges that the court’s jurisdiction is founded upon federal questions arising under the Fourth and Fifth Amendments. It is alleged that the damages were suffered as a result of the respondents imprisoning the petitioners in violation of their constitutional right to be free from deprivation of their liberty without due process of law, and subjecting their premises to search and their possessions to seizure,…
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