Court Opinion

ID: 9435016
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 00:01:20.387322+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:23:48.167669
License: Public Domain

Justice Thomas,
with whom Justice Scalia joins, concurring.
The Court correctly concludes that Bivens v. Six Unknown Fed. Narcotics Agents, 403 U. S. 388 (1971), does not supply a cause of action in this case. I therefore join its opinion. I write separately because I would not extend Bivens even if its reasoning logically applied to this case. "Bivens is a relic of the heady days in which this Court assumed common-law powers to create causes of action.” Correctional Services Corp. v. Malesko, 534 U. S. 61, 75 (2001) (Scalia, J., joined by Thomas, J., concurring). Accordingly, in my view, Bivens and its progeny should be limited "to the precise circumstances that they involved.” Malesko, supra, at 75.