United States Seventh Circuit

In a suit alleging Bivens claims against FBI agents and a tort claim against the U.S. under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), vacatur of a judgment for plaintiff on his Bivens claims is affirmed where 28 U.S.C. section 2676 applied to bar any claim by plaintiff against individual government employees arising out of the same facts alleged in his FTCA action.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/14/2008
• Decided 10/06/2008
• Published 10/06/2008

Judges

• BAUER, Circuit Judge., Before BAUER, FLAUM and MANION, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Philip S. Beck (argued), Bartlit, Beck, Herman, Palenchar & Scott, Jonathan I. Loevy, Jon Rosenblatt, Loevy & Loevy, Chicago, IL, Theodore B. Olson, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Washington, DC, for Plaintiff-Appellant, Cross-Appellee., Thomas P. Walsh (argued), Jonathan C. Haile (argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees, Cross-Appellants.