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Mar. 1, 2009
Health Remedies for the Detained
Few plaintiffs have prevailed in the nearly four decades since the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Bivens ruling cleared the way for individuals to sue federal employees for constitutional violations. Now, however, things may be changing, thanks in no small way to an Oakland attorney at the firm of Willoughby Doyle.
It has been 37 years since the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Bivens ruling cleared the way for individuals to sue federal employees for constitutional violations. But in all that time, few plaintiffs have prevailed. For example, only 4 of the 12,000 Bivens actions filed through 1985 were successfully litigated, according to a Georgetown Law Journal article. Now,...
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