DeFino v. McNamara

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Section 1983 plaintiff lacks standing to pursue declaratory relief where plaintiff “has done nothing more than allege past exposure to unconstitutional state action.”
• holding plaintiff in a 1983 action lacks standing to pursue declaratory relief where plaintiff “has done nothing more than allege past exposure to unconstitutional state action.”
• deciding the issue of exhaustion where the parties failed to raise itbecause the Court’s interest in minimizing conflict with the state courts was important enough to raise it sua sponte
• affirming power of district court to raise sua sponte defense of exhaustion in habeas case
• Third Circuit directed district court to dismiss plaintiff's §1983 claim for prospective relief where he “has done nothing more than allege past exposure to unconstitutional state action’
• Third Circuit directed district court to dismiss plaintiff’s §1983 claim for prospective relief where he “has done nothing more than allege past exposure to unconstitutional state action”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).