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Re: IRS Hit

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Broiles)
Thu Jun 5 20:53:02 1997

Date: Thu, 05 Jun 1997 17:05:23 -0700
To: Jim Burnes <jim.burnes@ssds.com>,
        "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@amaranth.com>
From: Greg Broiles <gbroiles@netbox.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970605165629.4047B-100000@westsec.denver.ssd
 s.com>
Reply-To: Greg Broiles <gbroiles@netbox.com>

At 04:59 PM 6/5/97 -0600, Jim Burnes wrote:
>The defendant is perfectly able to bring charges in this matter against
>James Dolan personally.  There is precedent in this.  If my read of
>the judge is accurate he is saying, "go after him because he was acting
>outside his office".
>
>I can't remember the exact name of this decision, but I think it was
>something like "so-and-so vs. 5 unnamed FBI officers".

It's _Bivens v. Six Unknown Federal Narcotics Agents_, 403 US 388 (1971),
or <http://www.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=403&invol=388>.


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