Federal Employee Urges High Court To Reject Damages Under Bivens For Injured Inmate

( August 17, 2026, 2:13 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling recognizing a cause of action for damages under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics for an inmate who was injured in a prison gang fight but was not sent to a hospital, a staff nurse at a federal detention center in his Aug. 14 petitioner brief notes that the high court “has refused to extend Bivens to any new context for the past 45 years, across 13 cases,” and says his case should be the 14th “and perhaps the final installment of the Bivens saga.”...