United States Fourth Circuit

Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388 (1971), and its progeny do not support a cause of action against individual employees of a private correctional facility.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/12/2006
• Published 01/12/2006

Judges

• Before WILKINSON and MOTZ, Circuit Judges, and R. BRYAN HARWELL, United States District Judge for the District of South Carolina, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Mark Allen Davis, Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice, Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellants.  James Phillip Griffin, Jr., North Carolina Prisoner Legal Services, Inc., Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellee.