Joseph Zadeh v. Mari Robinson

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that courts “may also examine the prison disciplinary reports to understand the basis of the underlying conviction.”
• holding that maintaining innocence was “necessarily inconsistent with the validity of the [administrative] conviction.”
• concluding that Heck barred excessive force claims which occurred contemporaneous with the conduct that formed the basis for the disciplinary convictions but not those excessive force claims which occurred outside of the disciplined conduct
• noting that a plaintiff’s claim challenges his conviction where he “maintain[s] his innocence in the events that led up to his [] conviction”
• noting plaintiff-appellant “challenge[d] the conviction by maintaining his innocence in the events that led up to his disciplinary conviction”
• relying on prison disciplinary reports to “understand the basis of the underlying conviction”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).