Analysis

5th Circ. Unlikely To Expand Suits Against Feds

By Kevin Penton (June 28, 2017, 8:34 PM EDT) -- When the Fifth Circuit reviews a case involving a border patrol agent's fatal shooting of a Mexican teenager on remand from the U.S. Supreme Court, it is unlikely to alter the established, but rarely expanded, ability of plaintiffs to sue individual federal officials for damages, experts say....

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