Officers of the Transportation Security Administration aren’t immune to Bivens actions, a federal judge has ruled in a case arising from the contentious search of a woman’s baggage at the Philadelphia airport.
Although U.S. District Judge J. Curtis Joyner of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania decided that the TSA officers who screen and inspect baggage at airports would be covered by sovereign immunity under the Federal Tort Claims Act, he held that his dismissal of the FTCA claims wouldn’t bar the similar Bivens claims brought by the plaintiffs.
