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Old Feb 17, 2020, 8:10 am
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Thoughts:

1. I hope the Bivens provision sticks against the aggressive pitbull DHS agent. Financial ruin is not a bad punishment. At the very least, he should be personally responsible for paying the cost of lost revenue that the four trucks would have brought to the company.
2. Speaking of lost revenue, I'm surprised that the complaint didn't include a loss of revenue complaint. I'm not sure how you would calculate this, but I'm sure the trucking industry has algorithms.
3. The lawsuit takes a pretty good shot at the TSA exceeding its authority to search for drugs and cash and detain passengers.

For the lawyers -- I saw a handwritten $400. Is that what it cost the victims to file the lawsuit? Can the government use the 90-day rules to get out of this and keep the company's money? What do people think happened to the missing $21K?
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