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Cite as:  582 U. S. ____ (2017) 

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BREYER, J., dissenting 

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES 

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Nos. 15–1358, 15–1359 and 15–1363 
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15–1358 

JAMES W. ZIGLAR, PETITIONER 
v. 
AHMER IQBAL ABBASI, ET AL. 

JOHN D. ASHCROFT, FORMER ATTORNEY 
GENERAL, ET AL., PETITIONERS 
v. 
AHMER IQBAL ABBASI, ET AL. 

15–1359 

15–1363 

DENNIS HASTY, ET AL., PETITIONERS 
v. 
AHMER IQBAL ABBASI, ET AL. 

ON WRITS OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF 
APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT 

[June 19, 2017] 

JUSTICE  BREYER,  with  whom  JUSTICE  GINSBURG  joins,

dissenting. 

In  Bivens  v.  Six  Unknown  Fed.  Narcotics  Agents,  403 
U. S. 388 (1971), this Court held that the Fourth Amend-
ment  provides  a  damages  remedy  for  those  whom  federal
officials  have  injured  as  a  result  of  an  unconstitutional 
search  or  seizure.  In  Davis  v.  Passman,  442  U. S.  228 
(1979), the Court held that the Fifth Amendment provides
a  damages  remedy  to  an  individual  dismissed  by  her
employer (a Member of Congress) on the basis of her sex in 
violation  of  the  equal  protection  component  of  that
Amendment’s  Due  Process  Clause.    And  in  Carlson  v. 
Green, 446 U. S. 14 (1980), the Court held that the Eighth
Amendment provides a damages remedy to a prisoner who