SHEARSON v. HOLDER

No. 11-4234.

725 F.3d 588 (2013)

Julia Anne SHEARSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Eric H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General; Robert Mueller III, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation; Timothy J. Healey, Director, Terrorist Screening Center; Michael E. Leiter, Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: August 5, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Gadeir A. Abbas , Council on American-Islamic Relations, Washington, D.C., for Appellant. Sharon Swingle , United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Gadeir A. Abbas , Council on American-Islamic Relations, Washington, D.C., for Appellant. Sharon Swingle , Mark B. Stern , United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Appellees.

Before: MARTIN, SILER, and DONALD, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

BOYCE F. MARTIN, JR., Circuit Judge.

In January 2006, the United States Customs and Border Protection detained Julia Shearson, a U.S. citizen, and her daughter as they drove into the United States from Canada. Customs searched Shearson's car and then allowed her to enter the country. Shearson filed this lawsuit claiming violations of the Fifth Amendment's Procedural Due Process clause, the Equal Protection...

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