Davis v. United States Sentencing Commission

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a federal prisoner need not bring an equal protection challenge to his sentence by means of a habeas petition because “[s]uccess would do no more than allow him to seek a sentence reduction, which the district court retains the discretion to deny”
• concluding that Davis’s claim could proceed outside habeas
• “channel[ing] state prisoners’ claims for relief – however styled - into habeas alone if the prisoners seek a remedy that is at the core of habeas.”
• “Because it was unpublished, while that decision is precedential, it is not binding on this panel.” (emphasis added)
• A “prisoner must bring his claim in habeas . . . if success on the merits will necessarily imply the invalidity of confinement or shorten its duration.”
• A “prisoner must bring his claim in habeas . . . if success on the merits will ‘necessarily imply the invalidity of confinement or shorten its duration.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).