Heck-v-Humphrey

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25-6206 Brett Talmadge v. Alaska Alaska 2025-11-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP bill-of-attainder constitutional-interpretation federal-questions heck-v-humphrey judicial-error supreme-court-procedure I. DID THE ALASKA SUPREME COURT MISAPPLY HECK V. HUMPHREY. II. DOES THE ALASKA SUPREME COURT'S ERROR UNDERMINE THE BILL OF ATTAINDER PROHIBITION III…
25-592 Teresa Miller v. Officer Helms, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-11-20 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 conviction-vacatur heck-v-humphrey judicial-prejudice pro-se-filing section-1404 1. Did the Fourth Circuit 's affirmance (Case No. 24-1718) of the Northern District of West Virginia 's dismissal (Case No. l:23-CV-26) of a 42 U.S…
24-993 Gabriel Olivier v. City of Brandon, Mississippi, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-03-18 Granted Amici (32)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) civil-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment heck-v-humphrey prospective-relief section-1983 Gabriel Olivier is a Christian who feels called to share the gospel with his fellow citizens. After being arrested and fined for violating an ordinanc…
24-5517 Charles Bonner v. Bryan Collier, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-09-11 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-rights heck-v-humphrey judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct post-trial-judgment After the jury found Petitioner guilty of one offense, Did Petitioner's prosecution end without a conviction after the judge affirmately exonerated Pe…
24-5094 Kenyatta Quinn Mitchell v. Paul Bennett, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 11th-amendment 42-usc-1983 circuit-court-review civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process heck-v-humphrey judicial-discretion legal-standards plra procedural-due-process state-law statutory-interpretation Did the Ninth Circuit and Fifth District Court apply all necessary and properly applicable elements to the petitioner's 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 claim? …
23-1273 Catherine Brennan v. Cass County Health, Human and Veteran Services, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-06-05 Denied Response Waived civil-commitment civil-rights due-process heck-precedent heck-v-humphrey psychotropic-drugs section-1983 willful-indifference 1. Is Heck v. Humphrey precedent to require persons subject to civil commitment proceedings not related to a criminal proceeding to vacate the commitm…
23-429 Brett C. Kimberlin v. Department of Justice, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-10-25 Denied Response Waived civil-rights dna-evidence fraud-based-discovery heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey official-corruption section-1983 statute-of-limitations I. Whether this case should be remanded for consideration in light of Reed v. Goertz, _ _U.S._ _ (April 19, 2023) to consider l) Petitioner 's 1983 ac…
23-304 Thomas Neilsen v. John Kellner, in His Official Capacity as District Attorney, et al. Colorado 2023-09-26 Denied Response Waived black-letter-law brady-rule civil-rights declaratory-relief due-process heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey mooney-v-holohan prosecutorial-misconduct section-1983 supreme-court-precedent In this case, Prosecutors for the 18th Judicial District in Colorado, acting as advocates for the State of Colorado convicted an innocent man by withh…
23-186 Nevada Department of Corrections, et al. v. Philip Roy Galanti Ninth Circuit 2023-08-29 Denied Relisted (2) 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-claim custody ex-prisoner-plaintiff favorable-termination-rule habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey section-1983 Under Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994), a plaintiff asserting a claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that questions the validity of his conviction or the…
23-5381 David Lamar Harper v. William Patrick Adams, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-08-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-U.S.C-1983 42-usc-1983 case-law civil-rights government-immunity heck-v-humphrey Huphrey-v-Heck-512-U.S.-447-(1994) statute-of-limitations void-judgment How can a 42 U.S.C 1983 lawsuit, based on a void judgment, be barred by a statue of limitations, Huphrey v. Heck, 512 U.S..447 (1994), and government …
23A74 Nevada Department of Corrections, et al. v. Philip Roy Galanti Ninth Circuit 2023-07-25 Presumed Complete civil-rights-damages former-inmate habeas-corpus heck-v-humphrey section-1983 sentence-reduction-credits MILAN D. SMITH, JR. and JOHN B. OWENS, Circuit Judges, and ANDREW S. OLDHAM, District Judge.* MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Circuit Judge: Philip Roy Galanti…
23-5092 Noel Brown v. Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2023-07-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process false-arrest favorable-termination habeas-corpus heck-v-humphrey judicial-procedure standing 1. Does the substantial holding in case on point Heck v. Humphrey, and Amaker v. Weiner , because the suit may be reinstituted should plaintiff's con…
22-7522 William Sim Spencer v. Joseph M. Gasper, Director, Michigan State Police Sixth Circuit 2023-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus heck-v-humphrey judicial-proceedings section-1983 sex-offender-registration sixth-circuit supervisory-power supreme-court-review I. Does the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals extension of the § 1983 favorable habeas corpus termination rule announced in Heck v Humphrey, 512 US All (…
22-1080 City of Stockton, California, et al. v. Francisco Duarte Ninth Circuit 2023-05-05 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-claim criminal-procedure due-process heck-bar heck-v-humphrey nolo-contendere plea-bargaining plea-deal pretrial-diversion section-1983 Whether the " Heck Bar," which this Court created in Heck v. Humphrey , 512 U.S. 477 (1994) , bars a 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 claim where the plaintiff …
22-7018 Michael Wright v. Contra Costa County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process federal-court-denial heck-v-humphrey jackson-v-virginia Jackson-v-Virginia-standard section-1983 state-court-invalidation state-tribunal unlawful-conviction 1. In applying Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994), to a unlawful conviction in a Title 42 § 1983 civil action, can the federal court deny the suit …
22-6211 In Re Patricia Ann Solomon 2022-12-02 Denied IFP civil-rights conspiracy conspiracy-charge controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-distribution heck-v-humphrey legitimate-purpose medical-prescription prescribing-authority prescription-drugs As per Honorable Justice Breyer's opinion in the new United States Supreme Court ruling XIULU RUAN v. UNITED STATES No. 20-1410. Argued March 1, 2022 …
22-376 Louisville-Jefferson County, Kentucky Metropolitan Government, et al. v. Johnetta Carr Sixth Circuit 2022-10-21 Denied Amici (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-action conviction criminal-conviction due-process habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey pardon section-1983 In 1994, this Court held that an individual convicted of a crime may not bring a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim unless "the conviction or sentence has been re…
22-366 County of Sonoma, California, et al. v. Gabbi Lemos Ninth Circuit 2022-10-19 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights comity conviction excessive-force heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey judicial-preclusion section-1983 Does Heck's "necessarily imply" standard bar a § 1983 suit only if, as some circuit courts have held, success would "necessarily require" plaintiff to…
22-183 Bryan Cowan, et al. v. Masa Nathaniel Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-08-29 Denied Response Waived 1983-action civil-rights criminal-plea excessive-force heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey judicial-estoppel qualified-immunity section-1983 1. Plaintiff pled no contest to California Penal Code §69 prior to bringing this §1983 action against all three officers who were involved in his arre…
21-1425 Darvin Castro Santos v. Craig White, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-05-05 Denied Response Waived civil-rights correctional-officers due-process excessive-force heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey prison-disciplinary-proceedings prisoner-rights section-1983 Whether Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994), may bar a prisoner's excessive-force claim against correctional officers for damages under § 1983 where…
21-1362 Timothy Gray v. Craig White, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-04-22 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived civil-rights correctional-officers due-process excessive-force heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey prison-disciplinary-proceedings prisoner-rights section-1983 Whether Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994), may bar a prisoner's excessive-force claim against correctional officers for damages under § 1983 where…
21-7447 Peter Liounis v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process emotional-distress false-arrest false-imprisonment favorable-termination heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey intentional-tort preponderance-of-evidence reasonable-doubt WHETHER THE FAVORABLE TERMINATION REQUIREMENT OF HECK v. HUMPHREY, 512 U.S.-477 (1994), MUST FIRST BE SATISFIED IN PLAINTIFF'S CRIMINAL CASE, EMPLOY…
21-1179 Eric Lund v. Jeffrey Datzman, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-02-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment harmless-error heck-v-humphrey Whether the Heck v. Humphrey bar on § 1983 suits is categorically inapplicable when a convicted individual brings a Fourth Amendment claim seeking dam…
21-7075 Ian T. Cooke v. John R. Williams, et al. Connecticut 2022-02-08 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-plaintiffs favorable-termination heck-bar heck-v-humphrey justiciability legal-malpractice tort-action tort-actions Does the justiciability bar articulated by Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994) requiring criminal plaintiffs to favorably terminate their conviction…
21-810 Luis Lorenzo Vargas v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-civil-litigation federal-civil-procedure heck-v-humphrey mcdononugh-v-smith preclusion preclusive-effect section-1983 state-criminal-conviction vacated-judgment Whether a wrongful state criminal conviction retains preclusive effect in a later federal action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 challenging the constitutional…
20-1351 Phillip W. Hurd, et al. v. Joy Laskar Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Relisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process favorable-termination heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey legal-termination malicious-prosecution section-1983 termination-of-prosecution A plaintiff alleging malicious prosecution under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 must show that the broader prosecution against him was terminated in his favor. Heck…
20-711 City of Fairbanks, Alaska, et al. v. Marvin Roberts, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-23 Denied Relisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights conviction-vacatur criminal-conviction due-process favorable-termination habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey section-1983 In Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994), this Court held that a plaintiff cannot bring a claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for allegedly unconstitutional …
20-372 Richard Louis Arnold Phillips v. Kevin Chappell, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights conviction-challenge due-process heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey partial-reversal section-1983 standing Is a plaintiff 'Heck barred' from seeking §1983 relief, when his conviction is partially reversed — thus vacating the only sentence imposed — but part…
20-5251 Michael Owen Harriot v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2401b appeals appellate-review civil-procedure district-court federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit heck-v-humphrey jurisdictional-issue standing statute-of-limitations statutory-time-bar IS WHETHER THE FOURTH CIRCUIT'S LACK' AUTHORITY SEE 28 U.S.C. § 1291, ON ITS OWN TO RAISED § 2401(b)'S TIME BAR WHEN THE DISTRICT COURT'S OPINION DID …
19-1380 Terry Lynn Olson v. Janis Amatuzio, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-06-16 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey incarceration incarceration-challenge section-1983 Whether a petitioner who has no available remedy in habeas, through no lack of diligence on his part, is barred by Heck from pursuing a Section 1983 c…
19-1360 William Cannon, Sr., as Special Representative for Charles Cannon, et al. v. Johnnie Lee Savory Seventh Circuit 2020-06-11 Denied Amici (1) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights custody favorable-termination habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey preclusion-doctrines section-1983 statute-of-limitations statutes-of-limitations Heck v. Humphrey , 512 U.S. 477 (1994), held that, to prevent circumvention of habeas corpus's statutory exhaustion of state remedies requirement, a p…
19-8511 Herbert W. Morrison, Jr. v. Andrew J. Hale Eighth Circuit 2020-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-action collateral-estoppel fourth-amendment heck-doctrine Heck-v-Humphrey illegal-search-and-seizure qualified-immunity section-1983 Whether a 42 U.S.C. §1983 civil rights action based on Fourth Amendment illegal search and seizure claims are barred under the Doctrine of Heck v. Hum…
19-8024 Julio A. Hunsberger v. Randy B. Duran, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-convictions due-process heck-v-humphrey monetary-compensation Are state prisoners entitled to monetary compensation under Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994) following reversal of their convictions where crimin…
19-1076 John L. Corrigan, Jr. v. City of Savage, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied Response Waived 1983-claim 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights custody due-process favorable-termination habeas habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey incarceration judicial-precedent section-1983 spencer-v-kemna standing Whether the court below erroneously held, in conflict with the decisions of seven other circuits, that the favorable termination rule applies even if …
19-7634 Aimee Hankins v. Tim Lowe Seventh Circuit 2020-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey judicial-remedy section-1983 state-federal-proceedings unlawful-detention When habeous corpus relief is unavailable to an inmate or parolee who has been held beyond their lawful release or termination date, does this Court's…
19-696 Dan Haendel v. Anne Reed, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response Waived alford-plea due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment heck-v-humphrey interception-act law-enforcement suppression-motion virginia virginia-interception-act 1. Does Heck v. Humphrey bar Appellant's federal court review of the constitutionality of actions by local Virginia investigative and law enforcement …
19-6324 Taeng Yang v. Michael McNeill, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights conviction-vacatur due-process heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey leave-to-amend section-1983 statute-of-limitations wallace-v-kato 1. "Whether Yang's § 1983 claims begins to accrue on the date his conviction was "vacated and overturned" in light of Heck U. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477, …
19-321 James Mills v. City of Covina, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-09-09 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey legal-tolling plaintiff-rights section-356 standing statute-of-limitations Does section 356 of the California Civil Procedure Code, which tolls a statute of limitations during any period that a plaintiff is legally prevented …
19-266 Seantrey Morris v. Joseph Mekdessie, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-08-29 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-attack due-process heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey judicial-estoppel pretrial-diversion section-1983 This Court held in Heck v. Humphrey that a plaintiff cannot bring a § 1983 claim based on "actions whose unlawfulness would render a [prior] convictio…
19-47 Jeryme Morgan v. Minh Schott, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-07-08 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights criminal-sentence disciplinary-proceedings due-process edwards-v-balisok heck-bar heck-v-humphrey mixed-sanctions non-durational-sanctions section-1983 When an inmate is penalized for a disciplinary infraction, prison officials may impose durational sanctions (e.g., revoking good-time credits) or nond…
18-9122 Don Nell Hawkins v. Patricia A. Gaughan Sixth Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2244 access-to-courts appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights denial-of-access due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey judicial-procedure section-2255 standing subject-matter-jurisdiction successive-2255-motion Whether the doctrine of Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477, 486-87 (1994) applies to denial of access to court claims? 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(3) allocates s…
18-1208 William M. Turner v. Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-03-18 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights continuing-wrong continuing-wrong-doctrine due-process heck-v-humphrey malicious-prosecution section-1983 statute-of-limitations tenth-circuit younger-abstention Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in finding that Appellant's 1983 and 1985 claims are barred by the Statute of Limitations. Whether the Tenth Circuit …
18-1186 Anthony Johnson v. Edward Winstead, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied Relisted (2) 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings due-process fifth-amendment heck-v-humphrey inculpatory-statement section-1983 statute-of-limitations unconstitutional-evidence unconstitutional-statement Does the statute of limitations for Section 1983 claim based on the use of an unconstitutional inculpatory statement begin to run when criminal procee…
18-1013 Edward Winstead, et al. v. Anthony Johnson Seventh Circuit 2019-02-05 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) accrual accrual-rules circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-trial due-process heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey section-1983 self-incrimination self-incrimination-claims wallace-v-kato 1. Whether the Seventh Circuit's holding that accrual of self-incrimination claims based on statements used at a criminal trial is deferred under Heck…
18-7357 David T. Frazier v. Stephen Crump, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied IFP 1983-suit civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights,due-process,civil-procedure,standing, due-process equal-protection favorable-termination heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey pro-se-litigant section-1983 time-bar (1). Is petitioners claims Time Barred Under The Favorable Termination Rule Founded under Heck V. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994) When he brought the 19…
18-6509 John Tedesco v. Monroe County, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process heck-v-humphrey prosecutorial-immunity rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 standing younger-abstention (1ST QUESTION ) MR TEDESCO'S COMPLAINT WAS DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE AN IN IT'S ENTIRETY. (2ND QUESTION) PLAINTIFF'S MOTION FOR LEAVE TO AMEND WAS DIS…
18-6426 Jonathan Eugene Brunson v. North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidence evidence-access exhaustion-requirement heck-v-humphrey muhammad-v-close pennsylvania-v-ritchie section-1983 state-prisoners I. WHETHER THE HECK V. HUMPHREY 514 U.S. 477, 486-87 (1994) REQUIREMENT FOR STATE PRISONERS TO EXHAUST THE STATE COURT REMEDY WHEN APPLIES TO A SECTIO…
18-6239 Sean P. Reilly v. Guelsy M. Herrera, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus heck-v-humphrey limitations-period prisoner-rights section-1983 Whether a Section 1983 Plaintiff, who diligently sought favorable termination according to the requirements of Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477, 114 S.C…
18-348 Robert Weisler, III v. Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-09-17 Denied 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights Devenpeck-v-Alford fourth-amendment heck-v-humphrey police-accountability qualified-immunity warrantless-arrest Whether Devenpeck, which only protects officers who either incompetently or maliciously arrest a person for a crime the arrestee did not commit, shoul…
18-5485 William N. Washington v. Eric Arnold, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied IFP civil-case civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process false-arrest habeas-corpus heck-v-humphrey judicial-review malicious-prosecution parole qualified-immunity standing washington-v-diamond Whether a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right has been made by the petitioner, in light of the recent factual finding, by the …
18-5404 Craig Cooper v. Court of Appeal of California, First Appellate District, et al. California 2018-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus heck-v-humphrey stare-decisis (1.) UNDER ThE DOCtRINE Of STARE dECISS All TRIbUNAl EXERCISINg iNFERIOR juRiSdiCTiON ARE REQUIiREd tO fOLlOW dECISION of COURTS EXERCISINg SUpERIOR j…
18-116 John E. Reardon v. Daniel B. Zonies, et al. Third Circuit 2018-07-26 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process fraud fraud-allegation heck-v-humphrey jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge legal-procedure ongoing-tort standing statute-of-limitations takings Does Heck v Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477, 1994 apply to a case where (A) the Court in question lacked, lost or usurped its jurisdiction; (B) Where there is …