Arthur X. Carson v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division

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• holding that lawsuit seeking reassignment from segregation does not implicate fundamental right
• noting that in civil context, courts must waive fees for indigent litigant who has fundamental interest at stake
• explaining that section 1983 lawsuits are the proper vehicle in which to attack unconstitutional conditions of confinement
• explaining that a prisoner with three strikes may not proceed IFP in “any . . . federal lawsuit which does not involve ‘imminent danger of serious physical injury’”
• holding prisoner had no fundamental interest in subject of suit
• suggesting level of exclusivity between habeas and § 1983 by adopting a “simple, bright-line rule” to determine when § 1983 was the proper vehicle for a claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).