Raccy Mabel Enriquez-Perdomo v. Richardo A. Newman, et al.

Louisville, Kentucky personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a civil rights violation theory.



Plaintiff Riccy Enriquez-Perdomo entered the United States illegally as a child. She was initially ordered to be deported, but later benefited from Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals ("DACA”), which makes her order of removal non-enforceable. Prior to the immediate events, which gave rise to this lawsuit, Enriquez-Perdomo was a well-known visitor at a United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE”) facility in Louisville, Kentucky where she frequently went to post bond for those held in custody. One day when Enriquez-Perdomo visited the ICE office in Louisville, she was suddenly detained by several ICE agents without a warrant or probable cause, despite her DACA status. Enriquez-Perdomo was then repeatedly moved to different locations across the country until she was finally released eight days later. After her release, Enriquez-Perdomo sued the ICE agents who detained her, alleging violations of the First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments, relying on the Supreme Court case of Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics to establish an implied federal cause of action. 403 U.S. 388 (1971). After a previous appeal, her First Amendment claims were dismissed.urth and Fifth Amendment claims were invalid extensions of Bivens.

Upon remand, the district court then granted summary judgment to defendants, reasoning that all Enriquez-Perdomo’s Fourth and Fifth Amendment claims were invalid extensions of Bivens.



Affirmed