Spencer v. Kemna

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1998-03-03

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Justice Ginsburg, concurring. The Court held in Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U. S. 477 (1994), that a state prisoner may not maintain an action under 42 U. S. C. § 1983 if the direct or indirect effect of granting…

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