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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Pryor finds that the lower court properly ruled that a federal prisoner cannot bring a Bivens action alleging that a prison official failed to protect him from violent attacks by his cellmates. The claim presents separation-of-powers concerns and special factors not accounted for by any Supreme Court precedent, so Congress should make this decision not the courts. Affirmed.
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