Olee Wonzo Robinson v. Mark C. Jones

How courts have described this case

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• stating that arguments that are not specifically raised on appeal are considered abandoned and not reviewable
• noting that the court of appeals would not consider twelve of thirteen Bivensclaims asserted by the plaintiff because he only challenged on appeal the dismissal of his thirteenth claim
• stating that the “Heck holding applies equally to an action brought under Bivens: so that a federal prisoner could not bring a Bivens action until demonstrating that his conviction has been “declared invalid or otherwise impugned as set forth in Heck.”
• Heck’s holding applies to actions brought pursuant to Bivens v. Six Unknown Federal Narcotics Agents, 403 U.S. 388 (1971)
• “Issues which were raised in the district court, yet not raised on appeal, are considered abandoned and not reviewable on appeal.”
• Heck barred lawsuit by federal prisoner based on alleged Fourth Amendment violations by assistant United States attorney who successfully prosecuted prisoner, where the federal conviction had not been set aside

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).