Wilkinson v. Dotson

How courts have described this case

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

• characterizing the Court’s precedents as holding “that a state prisoner’s § 1983 action is barred (absent prior invalidation) — no matter the relief sought (damages or equitable relief
• “[A] prison in state custody cannot use a § 28 1983 action to challenge the fact or duration of his confinement. He must seek federal habeas 1 corpus relief (or appropriate state relief) instead.”
• “[A] prisoner in state custody cannot 10 use a § 1983 action to challenge the fact or duration of his confinement. He must seek federal 11 habeas corpus relief (or appropriate state relief) instead.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).