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PITTS v. U.S.

No. 96-1410.

109 F.3d 832 (1997)

W. Douglas PITTS and Gloria Martinez, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided April 8, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lisa R. Daugherty, with whom Thomas E. Scott and Davis, Scott, Weber & Edwards were on brief for appellants.

Robert D. Kamenshine, Attorney, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, Department of Justice, with whom Frank W. Hunger, Assistant Attorney General, Guillermo Gil, United States Attorney, and Barbara L. Herwig, Attorney, Appellate Staff, were on brief for appellees.

Before TORRUELLA, Chief Judge, COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge, and DiCLERICO, District Judge.

TORRUELLA, Chief Judge.

Plaintiffs-appellants were mistakenly arrested by federal drug enforcement agents at the airport in San Juan, P.R. in April 1993. They filed actions for tort damages against four individual federal agents pursuant to Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388, 91 S.Ct. 1999, 29 L.Ed.2d 619 (1971), and against the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act ...

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