Ruff v. Runyon

OPINION

COHN, Senior District Judge.

I

Plaintiffs-appellants Fletcher Carr, Donald Taylor, and Gary Herron are African American and former employees of the United States Postal Service.1 They claim that defendants-appellees, in conducting an investigation regarding possible drug activities by its employees, improperly and illegally targeted African American postal employees and excluded white postal employees from the investigation. Plaintiffs made constitutional tort claims under Bivens2 claiming violations of the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Ninth Amendments, as well as claims under the…