GANEK v. LEIBOWITZ

No. 16-1463-cv August Term 2016.

874 F.3d 73 (2017)

David GANEK, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. David LEIBOWITZ, Reed Brodsky, David Makol, Matt Komar, James Hinkle, Holly J. Trask, David Chaves, Patrick Carroll, Rachel Rojas, Diego Rodriguez, Marc P. Berger, Christopher L. Garcia, Richard B. Zabel, Boyd M. Johnson, III, Preetinder S. Bharara, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: October 17, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

SARAH S. NORMAND , Assistant United States Attorney ( Andrew E. Krause , Jeffrey S. Oestericher , Assistant United States Attorneys, on the brief), for Joon H. Kim , Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, New York, for Defendants-Appellants.

NANCY GERTNER ( Anna Benvenutti Hoffmann , Barry Scheck , Nick Brustin , Farhang Heydari , Alexandra Lampert , Rick Sawyer , on the brief), Neufeld Scheck & Brustin, LLP, New York, New York, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Joshua L. Dratel , Law Offices of Joshua L. Dratel, P.C., New York, New York; John W. Keker , Brook Dooley , Keker & Van Nest LLP, San Francisco, California, for Amicus Curiae National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

Before: Raggi, Chin, Carney, Circuit Judges.


In this Bivens action, plaintiff David Ganek, a co-founding partner of investment fund Level Global Investors ("LG"), sues the named agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI") and federal prosecutors in the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York ("SDNY") for alleged violations...

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