''Correctional Services Corporation v. Malesko'', 534 U.S. 61 (2001), was a case decided by the

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, in which the

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found that implied damages actions first recognized in '' Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents''. should not be extended to allow recovery against a private

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operating a

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under

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with the

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. A ''Bivens'' action is a civil rights violation suit against the government. The Supreme Court limited this court-invented

private right of action A cause of action or right of action, in law, is a set of facts sufficient to justify suing to obtain money or property, or to justify the enforcement of a legal right against another party. The term also refers to the legal theory upon which a p ...

to exclude corporate defendants like

Correctional Services Corporation Correctional Services Corporation (CSC), originally Esmor Correctional Corporation, was a correctional firm founded by James F. Slattery in 1987. It was located in Sarasota, Florida, USA, and traded on the NASDAQ (NASDAQ NMS:CSCQ). It had been a c ...

. Plaintiff's actions against the individual employees were barred by the

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because the names of the John Doe defendant prison guards (esp. Jorge Urena) were not known to the plaintiff.

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* * Implied constitutional cause of action case law Private prisons in the United States United States Supreme Court cases United States Supreme Court cases of the Rehnquist Court 2001 in United States case law {{SCOTUS-case-stub

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