Legal Opinion
Amir Meshal v. Chris Higgenbotham
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided October 23, 2015No. 14-5194PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge BROWN.
Concurring opinion filed by Circuit Judge KAVANAUGH.
Dissenting opinion filed by Circuit Judge PILLARD.
BROWN, Circuit Judge:
Amir Meshal filed this Bivens action, see Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Fed. Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388, 91 S.Ct. 1999, 29 L.Ed.2d 619 (1971), against several agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), claiming they violated his Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights when they detained, interrogated, and tortured him over the course of four months in three African countries. Meshal insists a Bivens…
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- Davis v. PassmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
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