LEBRON v. RUMSFELD

Case No. 2:07-410-RMG.

764 F.Supp.2d 787 (2011)

Estela LEBRON, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Donald H. RUMSFELD, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. South Carolina, Charleston Division.

February 17, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan Marc Freiman , National Litigation Project, Hope R. Metcalf , Yale Law School, Tahlia Townsend, Wiggin and Dana, New Haven, CT, Michael P. O'Connell , Stirling O'Connell and Pennington, Charleston, SC, Alexander Abraham Abdo , Benjamin Elihu Wizner , American Civil Liberties Union, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs.

Joseph P. Griffith, Jr. , Joseph P. Griffith Law Firm, Lee Ellis Berlinsky , U.S. Attorneys Office, Edward Bart Daniel , Matthew R. Hubbell , John Phillips Linton , Seth Warren Whitaker , Duffy and Young, William C. Cleveland , Buist Moore Smythe and McGee, Charleston, SC, Darian Ronald Bartram , David Rivkin , Lee Casey , Baker and Hostetler, William Scott Simpson , U.S. Department of Justice, Jacqueline Gerson Cooper , Richard Douglas Klingler , Sidley Austin , Jamil N. Jaffer , Kevin Brent Huff , Wan Joo Kim , Kellogg Huber Hansen Todd Evans and Figel, Charles S. Leeper , Michael Reilly Miner , Drinker Biddle and Reath, James E. Sherry , Paul W. Butler , Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld, David E. Bell , Michael L. Martinez , Crowell and Moring, Edward C. Reddington , Frank Gregory Bowman , Williams and Connolly, Washington, DC, Jennifer J. Aldrich , U.S. Attorneys Office, Elizabeth Van Doren Gray , Bess Jones Durant , Tina Marie Cundari , Sowell Gray Stepp and Laffitte, Columbia, SC, Beattie B. Ashmore , Beattie B. Ashmore Law Office, William Alexander Coates , Roe Cassidy Coates and Price, Henry L. Parr, Jr , Wyche Burgess Freeman and Parham, Greenville, SC, for Defendants.


ORDER

RICHARD MARK GERGEL, District Judge.

This matter comes before the Court on Defendants' motions to dismiss Plaintiffs' claims, asserting, inter alia, that no valid cause of action exists in this matter under the principles of Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388, 91 S.Ct. 1999, 29 L.Ed.2d 619 (1971) and its progeny and that they are entitled to qualified immunity...

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