Tobias v. Oklahoma

How courts have described this case

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• treating § 1983 claim as petition for writ of habeas corpus when validity of plaintiffs criminal conviction was necessarily at issue
• claim for damages against court staff for allegedly tampering with transcript was not cognizable in a § 1983 action “ absent a successful challenge to the underlying conviction”
• due process claim for damages against court reporters, among others, for allegedly tampering with transcript was not cognizable in a § 1983 action “absent a successful challenge to the underlying conviction”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).