United States ex rel. Giacobbi v. Fluckey

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that prisoners when thwarted from improperly disguising civil action as petition for habeas corpus may decide to drop claim rather than risk consequences associated with PLRA
• noting the different procedural requirements and consequences of civil rights actions and habeas corpus statutes as reasons for refusing to convert action
• habeas is the proper vehicle for presenting a claim “only if the prisoner is seeking to ‘get out’ of custody in some meaningful sense”
• habeas is the proper vehicle for presenting a claim “only if the prisoner is seeking to ‘get out’ of custody in some meaningful sense”
• habeas is the proper vehicle for presenting a claim “only if the prisoner is seeking to ‘get out’ of custody in some meaningful sense”
• petition for habeas corpus may be used only to challenge the fact or duration of a prisoner’s confinement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).