Suing federal officers under authority of Bivens v. Six Unknown Fed. Narcotics Agents.

• Civil Lawsuits Against Federal Officers
• Bivens v. Six Unknown Fed. Narcotics Agents

Bivens-based civil suits are not to be extended beyond what has already been decided absent meeting some very stringent case law requirements. 

Plaintiff Robert Boule—a U.S. Citizen—owns, operates, and lives in a small bed and breakfast, called “Smuggler’s Inn,” in Blaine, Washington.  Blaine is the last town in the United States along U. S. Interstate Highway 5 before reaching the Canadian border.  Boule’s property backs right up to the U.S.-Canadian border, and in fact extends some five feet into Canada itself. You can literally walk out the Smuggler’s Inn’s back door and, in a few more feet, walk into Canada. The area surrounding the Inn “(i)s a hotspot for cross-border smuggling of people, drugs, illicit money, and items of significance to criminal organizations.”  On March 20, 2014, Boule was expecting a guest who, although flying in from New York, was originally from Turkey.  While Boule was running errands in town, Customs and Border Patrol Agent Erik Egbert contacted him and asked him about guests staying at his inn.  Boule told him about the Turkish guest who, at that moment, was being picked up by an employee of the inn at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, some 125 miles south of Blaine.  Telling the Border Patrol about such guests was not unusual in that playing both ends against the middle, Boule would both charge individuals wanting to use his Inn to sneak into Canada, or vice versa, and then inform the Border Patrol about their presence.   Interested in ....