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Private Prison Corporation Can Be Sued in Bivens Action: Supreme Court Grants Review
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2001
by John E Dannenberg
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2001, page 9
by John E. Dannenberg
Filed under:
Work Release,
Private Prisons,
Esmor/CSC,
Cardiovascular,
Limitations,
Contractor Liability,
Premises Liability.
Location:
New York.
Holding that a private corporation acting under color of federal authority may be sued under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 403 US 388, 397, (1971), the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit vacated the District Court's dismissal of John ...
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