Todd v. Baskerville

U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit · Decided 1983-07-06

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DONALD RUSSELL, Circuit Judge: These appeals have been consolidated because both involve the “ambiguous borderland” 1 between habeas corpus proceedings and § 1983 actions, though the dispositive issue in the two cases are different. As they come to us, the Todd appeal poses the question whether the action by a state prisoner in that case was to be considered in habeas and thus subject to…

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