Polzin v. Gage

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “courts may bypass the impediment of the Heck doctrine and address the merits of the case”
• holding that a district court's dismissal under Heck should be without prejudice so that the plaintiff can pursue constitutional claims if the conviction is ever invalidated
• noting that Heck-barred claim should be dismissed without prejudice so plaintiff may pursue it in the event the underlying conviction/disciplinary sanction is invalidated
• instructing that “the Heck defense” is not a jurisdictional bar and is therefore subject to waiver
• stating that “[t]he Heck doctrine is not a jurisdictional bar” and holding that “district courts may bypass the impediment of the Heck doctrine and address the merits of the case”
• explaining that Heck is not jurisdictional and thus may be forfeited

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).