ROSS v. MEESE

No. 86-3045.

818 F.2d 1132 (1987)

Carolyn R. ROSS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Edwin MEESE, Attorney General of the United States; John C. Lawn, Acting Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration; William Webster, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation; Roscoe L. Egger, Jr., Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service; James L. Roche, Jr., Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; James W. Ruark, Special Agent, Internal Revenue Service, and unknown federal agents, in their official capacities, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided May 22, 1987.

Rehearing Denied July 23, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas K. Maher (David S. Rudolf; Beskind & Rudolf, Chapel Hill, N.C., on brief), for plaintiff-appellant.

James G. Carpenter, Asst. U.S. Atty. (Samuel T. Currin, U.S. Atty., H. Robert Showers, Asst. U.S. Atty., Raleigh, N.C., on brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before WINTER, Chief Judge, and RUSSELL and WIDENER, Circuit Judges.


HARRISON L. WINTER, Chief Judge:

Plaintiff, Carolyn Ross, brought a Bivens1 type action against the Attorney General of the United States, the Director of the FBI, the Acting Director of the Drug Enforcement Agency, the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, and certain known and unknown federal enforcement agents in which she alleged that she had been subjected to an illegal search in violation of her constitutional rights. The plaintiff...

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