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Clint Edwards, Plaintiff-Appellant v. Drew Gizzi, Robert Johnsen, Frank Pena, John Does 1-10, Walter Cook, Anthony Mercurio, Defendants-Appellees* Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York No. 20-cv-7371, Karas, Judge. Appellant Clint Edwards brought claims seeking damages from court-security officers and deputy U.S. Marshals for using excessive force while restraining him in a courtroom. The district court dismissed his claims, concluding that Edwards has no cause of action under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388 (1971). The judgment of the district court is AFFIRMED. Judge Park concurs in the judgment in a separate opinion. Judge Robinson concurs in the judgment in a separate opinion. Judge Parker dissents in a separate opinion. PER CURIAM Appellant Clint Edwards brought claims seeking damages from court-security officers and deputy U.S. Marshals for using excessive force while restraining him in a courtroom. The district court dismissed his claims, concluding that Edwards has no cause of action under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388 (1971). The judgment of the district court is affirmed. PARK, Circuit Judge, concurring in the judgment: This case involves a straightforward application of a line of Supreme Court precedent unbroken over forty years. The district court correctly concluded that Edwards has no cause of action under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388 (1971). That is because the context here — an Eighth Amendment claim for excessive force against officers in the United States Marshals Service and court-security personnel — “is different in a meaningful way” from the three Bivens claims the Supreme Court has recognized. Ziglar v. Abbasi, 582 U.S. 120, 139 (2017). Moreover, Congress has provided in the Federal Tort Claims Act (“FTCA”), 28 U.S.C. §§1346(b), 2671-2680, just the sort of alternative remedial scheme that counsels against judicial expansion of Bivens. We should follow Supreme Court precedent and avoid engaging in legislative functions. I. BACKGROUND In July 2018, Edwards pleaded guilty to coercion and enticement of a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity in violation of 18 U.S.C. §2422(b). During his sentencing, he began yelling at the judge and the Assistant United States Attorney (“AUSA”). Edwards took an aggressive stance, raising his hands and slightly cocking his arms back, and lunged towards the AUSA’s desk. A Deputy United States Marshal, a District Security Officer, a private prison guard, and three Court Security Officers restrained him, and broke his arm in the process. Edwards filed a Bivens suit against them all. Three defendants moved to dismiss Edwards’s complaint. The district court construed the complaint as alleging two Bivens claims — one for excessive force under the Fifth or Eighth Amendment and one for deliberate indifference under the Eighth Amendment. The district court granted the motion to dismiss. Edwards v. Gizzi, No. 20-CV-7371 (KMK), 2022 WL 309393, at *2, *10 (S.D.N.Y. Feb. 2, 2022). It concluded that both claims presented new Bivens contexts and that the existence of a statutory remedial scheme under the FTCA presented a special factor counseling hesitation before extending the Bivens implied-damages remedy. Id. at *5-10. The court gave Edwards thirty days to explain why his claims against the remaining defendants should not be dismissed. Id. at *10. Instead, Edwards asked the district court to convert the partial dismissal into an appealable final judgment. The court did so, and Edwards appealed. II. DISCUSSION Edwards argues that his Eighth Amendment excessive-force claim does not implicate a new Bivens context and that no special factors counsel hesitation in extending a remedy. We review the grant of a motion to dismiss de novo. Meyer v. Seidel, 89 F.4th 117, 128 (2d Cir. 2023). A. The Bivens Framework More than fifty years ago, the Supreme Court in Bivens recognized an implied cause of action for money damages under the Fourth Amendment when the plaintiff alleged that federal narcotics officers had conducted an unreasonable warrantless arrest and search. See 403 U.S. at 392, 397. In the following decade, the Court crafted two other damages actions: first, a Fifth Amendment claim for sex discrimination in a suit brought by a former congressional staffer against a congressman, see Davis v. Passman, 442 U.S. 228 (1979); and second, an Eighth Amendment claim for failure to provide adequate medical treatment in a suit brought by a federal prisoner against prison officials, see Carlson v. Green, 446 U.S. 14 (1980). These three cases “represent the only instances in which the Court has approved of an implied damages remedy under the Constitution itself.” Ziglar, 582 U.S. at 131. Bivens, Davis, and Carlson were decided during an “ancien regime,” when the Supreme Court “assumed it to be a proper judicial function to provide such remedies as are necessary to make effective a statute’s purpose” or to “grant the necessary relief when federally protected rights have been invaded.” Id. at 131-32 (internal quotation marks omitted). But the Court has since made clear that “creating a cause of action is a legislative endeavor” that requires “evaluat[ing] a range of policy considerations,” such as “economic and governmental concerns, administrative costs, and the impact on governmental operations systemwide.” Egbert v. Boule, 596 U.S. 482, 491 (2022) (internal quotation marks omitted). Congress is not only “far more competent than the Judiciary to weigh such policy considerations,” but the Judiciary’s “authority to do so at all is, at best, uncertain.” Id. (internal quotation marks omitted). So “it is a significant step under separation-of-powers principles for a court to determine that it has the authority, under the judicial power, to create and enforce a cause of action for damages against federal officials in order to remedy a constitutional violation.” Ziglar, 582 U.S. at 133. These weighty separation-of-powers concerns make the “expansion of Bivens…a disfavored judicial activity.” Hernández v. Mesa, 589 U.S. 93, 101 (2020) (internal quotation marks omitted). We evaluate potential Bivens claims using a “two-step inquiry.” Id. at 102. First, we ask “whether the case presents a new Bivens context” — whether it is “meaningfully different from the three cases in which the Court has implied a damages action.”1 Egbert, 596 U.S. at 492 (cleaned up). Second, if the case involves a new context, we “ask whether there are any special factors that counsel hesitation about granting the extension.” Hernández, 589 U.S. at 102 (cleaned up). A special factor must “cause a court to hesitate before” finding that “the Judiciary is well suited, absent congressional action or instruction, to consider and weigh the costs and benefits of allowing a damages action to proceed.” Ziglar, 582 U.S. at 136. If there are such factors — “that is, if we have reason to pause before applying Bivens in a new context or to a new class of defendants — we reject the request.” Hernández, 589 U.S. at 102. The Court recently identified a “single question” at the heart of the two-step inquiry: “whether there is any reason to think that Congress might be better equipped to create a damages remedy.” Egbert, 596 U.S. at 492. “Put another way, the most important question is who should decide whether to provide for a damages remedy, Congress or the courts? If there is a rational reason to think that the answer is ‘Congress’ — as it will be in most every case — no Bivens action may lie.” Id. at 491-92 (emphasis added) (cleaned up). In short, although the Supreme Court has never overruled Bivens, it has tightly cabined it. Over the past forty years, the Court has rejected every attempt to expand Bivens that has come before it — twelve times in all, including as recently as 2022. See id. at 486. B. New Context Edwards’s claim arises in a new context. “A claim may arise in a new context even if it is based on the same constitutional provision as a claim in a case in which a damages remedy was previously recognized,” Hernández, 589 U.S. at 103, or otherwise “has significant parallels to one of the [Supreme] Court’s previous Bivens cases,” Ziglar, 582 U.S. at 147; see also id. at 138-46 (rejecting a claim under the Fourth Amendment even though Bivens involved a Fourth Amendment claim). Differences that are “meaningful enough to make a given context a new one,” include “the constitutional right at issue,” “the statutory or other legal mandate under which the officer was operating,” “the presence of potential special factors that previous Bivens cases did not consider,” or anything else that leads us to conclude that the plaintiff’s claim bears “little resemblance to the three Bivens claims the [Supreme] Court has approved in the past.” Id. at 139-40. This case presents a new Bivens context for two independent reasons. First, the asserted constitutional right — an excessive-force claim under the Eighth Amendment — is new. See, e.g., Farrington v. Diah, No. 22-13281, 2023 WL 7220003, at *1 (11th Cir. Nov. 2, 2023) (“[A]n excessive force claim under the Eighth Amendment raises a new context.”); Landis v. Moyer, No. 22-2421, 2024 WL 937070, at *2 3d Cir. Mar. 5, 2024) (same). Carlson involved a different type of claim — cruel-and-unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment for failure to provide adequate medical treatment to a prisoner. Edwards argues that Eighth Amendment claims for deliberate indifference are an old context for Bivens claims. But deliberate indifference and excessive force are different things. And differences in “the constitutional right at issue” are meaningful ones. Ziglar, 582 U.S. at 140; see also id. at 147 (“[E]ven a modest extension is still an extension.”). Second, claims against officers of the Marshals Service, courtsecurity personnel, and a private prison guard are each a new Bivens context. Edwards brings claims against various court-security personnel, not prison officials as in Carlson or federal narcotics agents as in Bivens. See Corr. Servs. Corp. v. Malesko, 534 U.S. 61, 68 (2001) (“Since Carlson we have consistently refused to extend Bivens liability to any new context or new category of defendants.”); see also Logsdon v. U.S. Marshals Serv., 91 F.4th 1352, 1358 (10th Cir. 2024) (“[A]gents of the [U.S. Marshals Service] are a new category of defendant.”); Lewis v. Bartosh, No. 22-3060, 2023 WL 8613873, at *2 (2d Cir. Dec. 13, 2023) (affirming the district court’s entry of judgment for Deputy U.S. Marshals because Deputy Marshals are a new class of defendants and the Marshals Service has an alternative remedial scheme for investigating misconduct). None of the three Supreme Court cases recognizing Bivens actions involved members of the Marshals Service, court-security personnel, or private prison guards.2 Nor did they involve officers acting to secure a courtroom. See 28 U.S.C. §566(a) (“It is the primary role and mission of the United States Marshals Service to provide for the security…of the United States District Courts…as provided by law.”); see also Zigler, 582 U.S. at 140 (“the statutory or other legal mandate under which the officer was operating” may present a meaningful difference). In short, this case presents a doubly new Bivens context because the Supreme Court has never recognized a Bivens remedy concerning this Eighth Amendment right or against this class of defendants. C. Special Factors Edwards’s claim also implicates special factors that counsel against extending Bivens. In particular, Edwards could have sought damages under the FTCA.3 When “there are alternative remedial structures in place, that alone, like any special factor, is reason enough to limit the power of the Judiciary to infer a new Bivens cause of action.” Egbert, 596 U.S. at 493 (internal quotation marks omitted). Edwards alleges that at least some federal employees assaulted him in the course of their official duties — a type of claim covered by the FTCA. See 28 U.S.C. §2680(h).4 The fact that Congress has already created a remedy for this situation is “a convincing reason for the Judicial Branch to refrain from providing a new and freestanding remedy in damages.” Ziglar, 582 U.S. at 137 (internal quotation marks omitted).5 III. CONCLUSION “Bivens, Davis, and Carlson were the products of an era when the Court routinely inferred causes of action that were not explicit in the text of the provision that was allegedly violated.” Hernández, 589 U.S. at 99 (internal quotation marks omitted). That era is over. And the Supreme Court has since made clear that Bivens extensions are inappropriate when “there is any rational reason (even one) to think that Congress is better suited to weigh the costs and benefits of allowing a damages action to proceed.” Egbert, 596 U.S. at 496 (internal quotation marks omitted).6 Here, Edwards asks us to extend Bivens claims to a doubly new context despite special factors that counsel us to hesitate before doing so. That is Congress’s prerogative, not ours. I thus vote to affirm the judgment of the district court. ROBINSON, Circuit Judge, concurring in the judgment: I concur in the judgment affirming the district court’s dismissal of Edwards’s Bivens claims. This case involves excessive force claims against Court Security Officers (CSOs), officers of the U.S. Marshals Service, and a private security officer. They are based on actions those officers took while quelling a public courtroom disturbance, rather than effecting an arrest. And because Edwards was allegedly subjected to excessive force after his conviction, his claims rely on Eighth Amendment, rather than Fourth Amendment, analysis. In light of these various distinctions from the excessive force claim in Bivens, considered together, I agree that Edwards’s claims are different “in a meaningful way” from the Bivens claims that continue to be recognized by the Supreme Court. See Ziglar v. Abbasi, 582 U.S. 120, 139 (2017) (cautioning against expanding the Bivens remedy to cases that differ “in a meaningful way from previous Bivens cases decided by” the Supreme Court). I write separately to stress that we need not — and should not — hold that any of these individual distinctions, in and of themselves, would necessarily defeat Edwards’s ability to seek Bivens relief on all of his claims. It is true that the Supreme Court has repeatedly declined to extend Bivens beyond its established applications. But on twelve different occasions since recognizing a Bivens remedy in Carlson v. Green, 446 U.S. 14 (1980), the Supreme Court has — as recently as 2022 — declined to overrule Bivens.7 In other words, just as we must take care to avoid improperly expanding the Bivens remedy, we also must follow the Supreme Court’s directive that in the heartland cases, Bivens relief remains alive and well. Even though the Supreme Court held in Ziglar that “expanding the Bivens remedy is now a ‘disfavored’ judicial activity,” 582 U.S. at 135 (quoting Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662, 675 (2009)), the Court also emphasized that Bivens remains good law. Writing for the Court, Justice Breyer explained: [T]his opinion is not intended to cast doubt on the continued force, or even the necessity, of Bivens in the search-and-seizure context in which it arose. Bivens does vindicate the Constitution by allowing some redress for injuries, and it provides instruction and guidance to federal law enforcement officers going forward. The settled law of Bivens in this common and recurrent sphere of law enforcement, and the undoubted reliance upon it as a fixed principle in the law, are powerful reasons to retain it in that sphere. Id. at 134. The Bivens remedy has never been limited to claims brought by people harmed in the exact same manner, under the exact same conditions, by the same class of federal officers as those in Bivens, Davis, and Carlson. Rather, the Supreme Court has cautioned against applying Bivens to circumstances that are different “in a meaningful way” from the established trilogy of Bivens cases. A case is not meaningfully different just because there is some factual difference from Bivens, Davis, or Carlson. Rather, in Ziglar, the Court identified various factors that might cause a case to differ in a meaningful way from the Bivens trilogy, depending on that case’s particular context: A case might differ in a meaningful way because of the rank of the officers involved; the constitutional right at issue; the generality or specificity of the official action; the extent of judicial guidance as to how an officer should respond to the problem or emergency to be confronted; the statutory or other legal mandate under which the officer was operating; the risk of disruptive intrusion by the Judiciary into the functioning of other branches; or the presence of potential special factors that previous Bivens cases did not consider. Ziglar, 582 U.S. at 139-40. The Court did not, however, hold that any one of these factors, by itself, necessarily creates a meaningful difference. Put another way, a court cannot simply plug in the factors identified in Ziglar. Instead, it must apply those factors to the nature of the claim to determine if the claim itself is meaningfully different. In short, Bivens may not spawn new, meaningfully different claims for damages against individual federal agents for violating individuals’ constitutional rights, but in its core applications, as our sister circuits have recognized, Bivens relief remains viable. See, e.g., Hicks v. Ferreyra, 64 F.4th 156, 166-69 (4th Cir. 2023) (holding in context of warrantless seizures of a Secret Service agent by U.S. Park Police that a Bivens remedy remains available to address violations of the Fourth Amendment involving unjustified, warrantless searches and seizures by line officers performing routine criminal law enforcement duties and explaining that the Supreme Court’s “severe narrowing of the Bivens remedy in other contexts does not undermine the vitality of Bivens in the warrantless-search-and-seizure context of routine criminal law enforcement”); Snowdon v. Henning, 72 F.4th 237, 239-40, 245-46 (7th Cir. 2023) (allowing a “straightforward application of Bivens itself” to proceed in a Fourth Amendment claim against a DEA agent for excessive force in making an arrest); see also Greenpoint Tactical Income Fund LLC v. Pettigrew, 38 F.4th 555, 564 n.2 (7th Cir. 2022) (explaining that Egbert v. Boule, 596 U.S. 482 (2022) “does not change [the court's] understanding of Bivens’ continued force in its domestic Fourth Amendment context”). Especially concerning is the suggestion that any excessive force claim against a rank-and-file Deputy U.S. Marshal is meaningfully different from Bivens. As Justice Sotomayor recently noted, there are “83 different federal law enforcement agencies with authority to make arrests and provide police protection.” See Egbert, 596 U.S. at 512 (Sotomayor, J., concurring in the judgment in part and dissenting in part) (citing U.S. Dep’t of Justice, Connor Brooks, Federal Law Enforcement Officers, 2016 — Statistical Tables (NCJ 251922, Oct. 2019), https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/fleo16st.pdf [https://perma.cc/ARG9-WTPX]). “[I]f the ‘new context’ inquiry were defined at such a fine level of granularity, every case would raise a new context, because the Federal Bureau of Narcotics [the agency at issue in Bivens] no longer exists.” Id. Thus, applying Supreme Court precedent, we should not decide whether any individual factor in Edwards’s case, on its own, would preclude Bivens relief. Here, we have Eighth Amendment excessive force claims against CSOs, officers of the U.S. Marshals Service, and a private security officer, based on how they responded to a public courtroom outburst. This specific scenario is outside the heartland of Bivens cases that remain alive and well. PARKER, Circuit Judge, dissenting: Despite many opportunities to overrule Bivens,8 Davis,9 and Carlson,10 the Supreme Court has continued to reassure us that these cases continue to offer meaningful and ostensibly necessary protection for basic constitutional rights.11 Though we are cautioned to refrain from expanding the Bivens line of cases because that is the work of the Congress, we are also reminded that those cases are alive and well and that lower courts cannot overturn “the settled law of Bivens” sub silentio. See, e.g., Ziglar v. Abbasi, 582 U.S. 120, 134 (2017). As with all our cases, we take the Supreme Court at its word. Edwards, just like Bivens, brought claims against rank-and-file federal lawenforcement officers for violating his constitutional right to be free from excessive force while in custody. Bivens, 403 U.S. at 388. He asserted those claims under the Eighth Amendment, one of the few constitutional provisions for which the Supreme Court has expressly approved the Bivens relief Edwards seeks here. Carlson, 446 U.S. at 23-24. I do not join my colleagues because I remain unpersuaded that they have convincingly articulated why Edward’s allegations differ in a meaningful way from previous Bivens cases decided by the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court’s observation that a claim may present a “new context” even if it has “has significant parallels to one of the Court’s previous Bivens cases” sends us down a rocky road. Ziglar, 582 U.S. at 147. We derive some assistance from the Court’s illustrative examples of how “[a] case might differ in a meaningful way” from the Bivens heartland. Id. at 139-40 (emphasis added). However, we are afforded precious little guidance when we tackle the daunting, real-life task of sorting out from the varied and unique cases that come before us those that are “meaningfully different” from the three in which the Supreme Court expressly approved Bivens claims and those whose differences are not meaningful. Egbert, 596 U.S. at 492. The unresolved problem we face is that “[a]t a sufficiently high level of generality, any claim can be analogized to some other claim for which a Bivens action is afforded, just as at a sufficiently high level of particularity, every case has points of distinction.” Arar v. Ashcroft, 585 F.3d 559, 572 (2d Cir. 2009). Calibrating the precise level of granularity at which we assess whether one set of facts differs meaningfully from another remains the core challenge of adjudicating these cases in lower federal courts, substantially because that task is shrouded in so much confusion. But it is nonetheless our duty to draw those distinctions in a manner that is equally as faithful to the Supreme Court’s insistence that Bivens, Davis, and Carlson are alive as it is to the Court’s instruction that we are not to expand those precedents. All of this is complicated by the fact the Supreme Court has begun to tell that Bivens is, for all intents and purposes, a relic of an “ancien regime.” See Hernandez v. Mesa, 589 U.S. 93, 99 (2020); Ziglar, 582 U.S. at 131 (quoting Alexander v. Sandoval, 532 U.S. 275, 287 (2001)). The import of that characterization is unclear. After all, volume after volume of the U.S. Reports catalogues “ancient regimes” that unquestionably remain good law and indeed are essential to our constitutional democracy. Still, regardless of how “ancient” one may be inclined to view constitutional torts jurisprudence dating between 1971 and 1980, there is no escaping the fundamental constraint that so long as Bivens, Davis, and Carlson remain “good” law, lower courts are constitutionally foreclosed from reading the Supreme Court’s latest doubts about Bivens’ supposed origins in a manner that would functionally overturn those precedents. But this is where even more serious analytical problems start. It is difficult to understand or articulate why the Constitution creates liability on the one hand for federal officers who are deliberately indifferent to custodial abuses but, on the other hand, immunizes federal officers who actively participate in custodial abuses. See Carlson, 446 U.S. at 16 n.1. And in this case, the path to concluding that Edwards’ excessive-force allegations “differ[] in a meaningful way from previous Bivens cases decided by th[e Supreme] Court” forces us to abandon what the Supreme Court has repeatedly told us is true: that the Constitution supplies a claim where rank-and-file federal law enforcement officers are alleged to have violated the constitutional right to be free from excessive force. Egbert, 596 U.S. at 502 (2022) (declining to reconsider Bivens). It cannot be that Edwards’ claims threaten an impermissible expansion of Bivens on the theory that it names “a new class of defendants” — i.e., Deputy U.S. Marshals — simply because no U.S. Marshals were sued in Bivens. As the second concurrence points out, the Bivens defendants were agents of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, an agency that no longer exists. See Concurring Op. (Robinson, J.), at *5 (citing Egbert, 596 U.S. at 512 (Sotomayor, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part)). It necessarily follows that if employees of a nominally different agency are “a new class of defendants,” then Bivens itself no longer exists. In other words, we are nonplussed as to how Bivens remains good law if future cases alleging the same constitutional violations will fail unless and until the federal government recharters or renames one of its agencies “Federal Bureau of Narcotics.” It certainly bears noting that the now-defunct Federal Bureau of Narcotics was housed within the U.S. Department of Justice, right alongside the U.S. Marshals Service. The second concurrence appears to recognize some of the many problems that will flow from resolving this case on any of the distinctions that have been employed to present it as a potential Bivens “expansion.” Id. Despite sowing doubts about whether any one of those distinctions has any legal meaning on its own, the opinion nonetheless goes on to conclude that the result changes when these “distinctions” are “considered together” — but without telling us why. Id. at *1 (emphasis in original). It gives us no guidance on how those factors combine, how they relate to one another, the weight that each ought to be given, or anything else capable of illuminating the point at which a combination of legally insufficient distinctions morphs into a meaningful difference. In any event, even if we assume arguendo that this case presents a “meaningfully different” Bivens context, we are supplied with no “special factors” counseling against the availability of Bivens remedy for the constitutional violation that Edwards alleges. The existence of the Federal Tort Claims Act, which imposes liability against the United States and not against individual officers — is clearly not an “alternative remedial scheme” for a constitutional remedy that is centered entirely individual officer deterrence. Corr. Servs. Corp. v. Malesko, 534 U.S. 61, 70-71 (2001) (“Bivens…is concerned solely with deterring the unconstitutional acts of individual officers.”). It is in part for this reason that the Supreme Court has declined to extend Bivens to employees of private contractors presumably subject to vicarious liability. For instance, in Malesko — the case Egbert highlights to suggest that a “new category of defendants” can portend a “new context” under Bivens — the Supreme Court declined to extend Bivens to claims against a private Bureau of Prisons contractor on the theory that Bivens is intended to deter individual officers and that its deterrent effect is lost if liability runs to the employer: “[I]f a corporate defendant is available for suit, claimants will focus their collection efforts on it, and not the individual directly responsible for the alleged injury.” Id. at 62; see Egbert, 596 U.S. at 492-93. Edwards seeks relief from individual rank-and-file federal law enforcement officers who, in the course of their work, are alleged to have violated the constitutional right to be free from excessive force. This is precisely the class of officers whom Bivens is designed to deter from committing constitutional violations, and it is precisely the type of claim that Bivens has always been thought to cover. In sum, the fact that the Supreme Court continues to express serious doubts about Bivens’ future does not, in my view, grant a license to sub silentio do for the Supreme Court what it has thus far been unwilling to do itself. If the Supreme Court plans to take away important protections against constitutional violations and allow federal officials to act unconstitutionally without consequence unless and until Congress acts, then it should face the nation and say as much. It should not delegate that work to us. Until then, we must not forget that there is a reason our constitutional system preserves remedies like the one contemplated in Bivens: to protect people from illegal actions by the Executive (or members of Congress)12 for which there would otherwise be no meaningful consequence or repair. As Justice Scalia emphasized in Armstrong v. Exceptional Child Center, Inc., judge-made remedies have played a critical role in the “long history of judicial review of illegal executive action, tracing back to England.” 575 U.S. 320, 327 (2015).

 
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