Legal Opinion
Carol Van Strum Paul E. Merrell v. John C. Lawn
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 23, 1991No. 89-35656PublishedCited by 290 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:
Appellants Carol Van Strum and Paul Merrell appeal the district court’s dismissal of their suit against a number of federal and county officials. Appellants assert that federal officials, acting in concert with officials of Lincoln County, Oregon, subjected appellants’ home to frequent and harassing helicopter and fixed-wing aircraft overflights in retaliation for appellants’ public opposition to the use of herbicides on national forest land. In the court below, appellants pursued Bivens claims (Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents, 403 U.S. 388, 91 S.Ct. 1999, 29…
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