heck-v-humphrey
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6206 | Brett Talmadge v. Alaska | Alaska | 2025-11-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bill-of-attainder constitutional-interpretation federal-questions heck-v-humphrey judicial-error supreme-court-procedure | I. DID THE ALASKA SUPREME COURT MISAPPLY HECK V. HUMPHREY. II. DOES THE ALASKA SUPREME COURT'S ERROR UNDERMINE THE BILL OF ATTAINDER PROHIBITION III… |
| 25-592 | Teresa Miller v. Officer Helms, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-11-20 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1983 conviction-vacatur heck-v-humphrey judicial-prejudice pro-se-filing section-1404 | 1. Did the Fourth Circuit 's affirmance (Case No. 24-1718) of the Northern District of West Virginia 's dismissal (Case No. l:23-CV-26) of a 42 U.S… |
| 24-993 | Gabriel Olivier v. City of Brandon, Mississippi, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-03-18 | Granted | Amici (32)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | civil-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment heck-v-humphrey prospective-relief section-1983 | Whether Heck v. Humphrey bars § 1983 claims seeking purely prospective relief where the plaintiff has been punished under a law challenged as unconsti… |
| 24-5517 | Charles Bonner v. Bryan Collier, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-09-11 | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence civil-rights heck-v-humphrey judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct post-trial-judgment | Whether a judge can waive judicial immunity by fabricating a post-trial judgment and sentence that falsely purports jury findings, and whether success… |
| 24-5094 | Kenyatta Quinn Mitchell v. Paul Bennett, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-07-16 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 11th-amendment 42-usc-1983 circuit-court-review civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process heck-v-humphrey judicial-discretion legal-standards plra procedural-due-process state-law statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. |
| 23-1273 | Catherine Brennan v. Cass County Health, Human and Veteran Services, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2024-06-05 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-commitment civil-rights due-process heck-precedent heck-v-humphrey psychotropic-drugs section-1983 willful-indifference | Is Heck v. Humphrey precedent to require persons subject to civil commitment proceedings not related to a criminal proceeding to vacate the commitment… |
| 23-429 | Brett C. Kimberlin v. Department of Justice, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2023-10-25 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights dna-evidence fraud-based-discovery heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey official-corruption section-1983 statute-of-limitations | Whether Heck v. Humphrey bars a civil rights suit against officials who corruptly concealed evidence until time for appeal expired |
| 23-304 | Thomas Neilsen v. John Kellner, in His Official Capacity as District Attorney, et al. | Colorado | 2023-09-26 | Denied | Response Waived | black-letter-law brady-rule civil-rights declaratory-relief due-process heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey mooney-v-holohan prosecutorial-misconduct section-1983 supreme-court-precedent | Does 'Heck' or any other procedural issue bar a section 1983 petition asking for declaratory and injunctive relief when a prosecutor defiantly fails t… |
| 23-186 | Nevada Department of Corrections, et al. v. Philip Roy Galanti | Ninth Circuit | 2023-08-29 | Denied | Relisted (2) | 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights civil-rights-claim custody ex-prisoner-plaintiff favorable-termination-rule habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey section-1983 | Is there an exception to the Heck v. Humphrey rule for plaintiffs who are no longer in custody? |
| 23-5381 | David Lamar Harper v. William Patrick Adams, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-08-18 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 42-U.S.C-1983 42-usc-1983 case-law civil-rights government-immunity heck-v-humphrey Huphrey-v-Heck-512-U.S.-447-(1994) statute-of-limitations void-judgment | How can a 42 U.S.C 1983 lawsuit, based on a void judgment, be barred by a statute-of-limitations, Huphrey-v-Heck-512-U.S.-447-(1994), and government-i… |
| 23A74 | Nevada Department of Corrections, et al. v. Philip Roy Galanti | Ninth Circuit | 2023-07-25 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights-damages former-inmate habeas-corpus heck-v-humphrey section-1983 sentence-reduction-credits | Whether the Heck v. Humphrey bar to § 1983 actions applies when a plaintiff seeks damages for the denial of sentence-reduction credits but can no long… | |
| 23-5092 | Noel Brown v. Pennsylvania, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-07-13 | Dismissed | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights due-process false-arrest favorable-termination habeas-corpus heck-v-humphrey judicial-procedure standing | Whether the Third Circuit erred in dismissing the petitioner's false-arrest claim with prejudice, rather than without prejudice, in light of the favor… |
| 22-7522 | William Sim Spencer v. Joseph M. Gasper, Director, Michigan State Police | Sixth Circuit | 2023-05-11 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus heck-v-humphrey judicial-proceedings section-1983 sex-offender-registration sixth-circuit supervisory-power supreme-court-review | Does the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals extension of the § 1983 favorable habeas corpus termination rule announced in Heck v Humphrey, 512 US 477 (199… |
| 22-1080 | City of Stockton, California, et al. v. Francisco Duarte | Ninth Circuit | 2023-05-05 | Denied | Amici (2)Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-claim criminal-procedure due-process heck-bar heck-v-humphrey nolo-contendere plea-bargaining plea-deal pretrial-diversion section-1983 | Whether the 'Heck Bar' bars a 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 claim where the plaintiff pled nolo contendere as part of a plea deal |
| 22-7018 | Michael Wright v. Contra Costa County, California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-03-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights due-process federal-court-denial heck-v-humphrey jackson-v-virginia Jackson-v-Virginia-standard section-1983 state-court-invalidation state-tribunal unlawful-conviction | Heck-v-Humphrey-standard-for-1983-civil-actions |
| 22-6211 | In Re Patricia Ann Solomon | 2022-12-02 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights conspiracy conspiracy-charge controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law drug-distribution heck-v-humphrey legitimate-purpose medical-prescription prescribing-authority prescription-drugs | Can Ms. Patricia Solomon, a physician assistant who never prescribed any drug, be convicted under 21 U.S.C. §846 in the Eastern District of Kentucky L… | |
| 22-376 | Louisville-Jefferson County, Kentucky Metropolitan Government, et al. v. Johnetta Carr | Sixth Circuit | 2022-10-21 | Denied | Amici (2) | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-action conviction criminal-conviction due-process habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey pardon section-1983 | May a convicted offender, subsequently pardoned, bring a § 1983 action where the pardon fails to expunge the underlying criminal conviction or call it… |
| 22-366 | County of Sonoma, California, et al. v. Gabbi Lemos | Ninth Circuit | 2022-10-19 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights comity conviction excessive-force heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey judicial-preclusion section-1983 | Does Heck's 'necessarily imply' standard bar a § 1983 suit only if success would 'necessarily require' plaintiff to negate the underlying conviction, … |
| 22-183 | Bryan Cowan, et al. v. Masa Nathaniel Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2022-08-29 | Denied | Response Waived | 1983-action civil-rights criminal-plea excessive-force heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey judicial-estoppel qualified-immunity section-1983 | Whether a §1983 claim is barred under Heck when the plaintiff must disprove part of the factual basis for his criminal conviction to succeed |
| 21-1425 | Darvin Castro Santos v. Craig White, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-05 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights correctional-officers due-process excessive-force heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey prison-disciplinary-proceedings prisoner-rights section-1983 | Whether Heck v. Humphrey bars a prisoner's excessive-force claim against correctional officers for damages under § 1983 where the claim does not direc… |
| 21-1362 | Timothy Gray v. Craig White, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-22 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | civil-rights correctional-officers due-process excessive-force heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey prison-disciplinary-proceedings prisoner-rights section-1983 | Whether Heck v. Humphrey bars a prisoner's excessive-force claim against correctional officers for damages under § 1983 where the claim does not direc… |
| 21-7447 | Peter Liounis v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-03-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights due-process emotional-distress false-arrest false-imprisonment favorable-termination heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey intentional-tort preponderance-of-evidence reasonable-doubt | Whether the favorable termination requirement of Heck v. Humphrey must be satisfied in plaintiff's criminal case prior to filing a federal torts claim… |
| 21-1179 | Eric Lund v. Jeffrey Datzman, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-02-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment harmless-error heck-v-humphrey | Whether the Heck v. Humphrey bar on § 1983 suits is categorically inapplicable when a convicted individual brings a Fourth Amendment claim seeking dam… |
| 21-7075 | Ian T. Cooke v. John R. Williams, et al. | Connecticut | 2022-02-08 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights criminal-plaintiffs favorable-termination heck-bar heck-v-humphrey justiciability legal-malpractice tort-action tort-actions | Does the justiciability bar articulated by Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994) requiring criminal plaintiffs to favorably terminate their conviction… |
| 21-810 | Luis Lorenzo Vargas v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-12-01 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-civil-litigation federal-civil-procedure heck-v-humphrey mcdononugh-v-smith preclusion preclusive-effect section-1983 state-criminal-conviction vacated-judgment | Whether a wrongful state criminal conviction retains preclusive effect in a later federal action under 42-U.S.C-§1983 challenging the constitutionalit… | |
| 20-1351 | Phillip W. Hurd, et al. v. Joy Laskar | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-25 | Denied | Relisted (2) | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process favorable-termination heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey legal-termination malicious-prosecution section-1983 termination-of-prosecution | Whether a plaintiff alleging malicious prosecution under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 must show that the broader prosecution against him was terminated in a manne… |
| 20-711 | City of Fairbanks, Alaska, et al. v. Marvin Roberts, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-11-23 | Denied | Relisted (2) | 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights conviction-vacatur criminal-conviction due-process favorable-termination habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey section-1983 | Whether vacatur of a conviction by settlement qualifies as a favorable termination under Heck v. Humphrey when the vacatur was merely the ministerial … |
| 20-372 | Richard Louis Arnold Phillips v. Kevin Chappell, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-24 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights conviction-challenge due-process heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey partial-reversal section-1983 standing | Does a plaintiff remain 'Heck barred' from seeking §1983 relief when their conviction is partially reversed, vacating the only sentence imposed, but p… |
| 20-5251 | Michael Owen Harriot v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-08-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2401b appeals appellate-review civil-procedure district-court federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit heck-v-humphrey jurisdictional-issue standing statute-of-limitations statutory-time-bar | Whether the Fourth Circuit's lack of authority to raise 28 U.S.C. § 2401(b)'s time bar on its own when the district court's opinion did not rest on § … |
| 19-1380 | Terry Lynn Olson v. Janis Amatuzio, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2020-06-16 | Denied | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey incarceration incarceration-challenge section-1983 | Whether a petitioner who has no available remedy in habeas, through no lack of diligence on his part, is barred by Heck from pursuing a Section 1983 c… | |
| 19-1360 | William Cannon, Sr., as Special Representative for Charles Cannon, et al. v. Johnnie Lee Savory | Seventh Circuit | 2020-06-11 | Denied | Amici (1) | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights custody favorable-termination habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey preclusion-doctrines section-1983 statute-of-limitations statutes-of-limitations | Does the limitations period for a §1983 claim that necessarily implicates a criminal conviction accrue when a prisoner is released from custody, as fo… |
| 19-8511 | Herbert W. Morrison, Jr. v. Andrew J. Hale | Eighth Circuit | 2020-05-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-action collateral-estoppel fourth-amendment heck-doctrine Heck-v-Humphrey illegal-search-and-seizure qualified-immunity section-1983 | Whether 42 U.S.C. §1983 civil-rights claims based on 4th-amendment illegal-search-and-seizure are barred under Heck-v-Humphrey, collateral-estoppel, o… |
| 19-8024 | Julio A. Hunsberger v. Randy B. Duran, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2020-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-convictions due-process heck-v-humphrey monetary-compensation | Are state prisoners entitled to monetary compensation under Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994) following the reversal of their criminal convictions… |
| 19-1076 | John L. Corrigan, Jr. v. City of Savage, Minnesota, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2020-03-02 | Denied | Response Waived | 1983-claim 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights custody due-process favorable-termination habeas habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey incarceration judicial-precedent section-1983 spencer-v-kemna standing | Whether the court below erroneously held that the favorable termination rule applies even if an individual is no longer incarcerated, and therefore in… |
| 19-7634 | Aimee Hankins v. Tim Lowe | Seventh Circuit | 2020-02-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey judicial-remedy section-1983 state-federal-proceedings unlawful-detention | When habeous corpus relief is unavailable to an inmate or parolee who has been held beyond their lawful release or termination date, does this Court's… |
| 19-696 | Dan Haendel v. Anne Reed, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-03 | Denied | Response Waived | alford-plea due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment heck-v-humphrey interception-act law-enforcement suppression-motion virginia virginia-interception-act | Does Heck v. Humphrey bar Appellant's federal court review of the constitutionality of actions by local Virginia investigative and law enforcement off… |
| 19-6324 | Taeng Yang v. Michael McNeill, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2019-10-21 | Denied | IFP | 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights conviction-vacatur due-process heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey leave-to-amend section-1983 statute-of-limitations wallace-v-kato | Whether Yang's § 1983 claims begins to accrue on the date his conviction was 'vacated and overturned' in light of Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477, 486-… |
| 19-321 | James Mills v. City of Covina, California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-09-09 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey legal-tolling plaintiff-rights section-356 standing statute-of-limitations | Does section 356 of the California Civil Procedure Code, which tolls a statute of limitations during any period that a plaintiff is legally prevented … |
| 19-266 | Seantrey Morris v. Joseph Mekdessie, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-29 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (2) | civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-attack due-process heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey judicial-estoppel pretrial-diversion section-1983 | Whether Heck v. Humphrey bars a § 1983 claim when criminal charges were dismissed through a pretrial diversion program |
| 19-47 | Jeryme Morgan v. Minh Schott, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2019-07-08 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights criminal-sentence disciplinary-proceedings due-process edwards-v-balisok heck-bar heck-v-humphrey mixed-sanctions non-durational-sanctions section-1983 | Whether Heck bars § 1983 claims for damages in mixed-sanctions cases where the inmate challenges only the non-durational elements of the sanction, exp… |
| 18-9122 | Don Nell Hawkins v. Patricia A. Gaughan | Sixth Circuit | 2019-05-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 28-usc-2244 access-to-courts appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights denial-of-access due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey judicial-procedure section-2255 standing subject-matter-jurisdiction successive-2255-motion | Whether the doctrine of Heck v. Humphrey applies to denial of access to court claims? |
| 18-1208 | William M. Turner v. Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2019-03-18 | Denied | civil-procedure civil-rights continuing-wrong continuing-wrong-doctrine due-process heck-v-humphrey malicious-prosecution section-1983 statute-of-limitations tenth-circuit younger-abstention | Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in finding that Appellant's 1983 and 1985 claims are barred by the Statute of Limitations | |
| 18-1186 | Anthony Johnson v. Edward Winstead, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2019-03-13 | Denied | Relisted (2) | 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings due-process fifth-amendment heck-v-humphrey inculpatory-statement section-1983 statute-of-limitations unconstitutional-evidence unconstitutional-statement | Whether the statute of limitations for a Section 1983 claim based on the use of an unconstitutional inculpatory statement begins to run when criminal … |
| 18-1013 | Edward Winstead, et al. v. Anthony Johnson | Seventh Circuit | 2019-02-05 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | accrual accrual-rules circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-trial due-process heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey section-1983 self-incrimination self-incrimination-claims wallace-v-kato | Whether the Seventh Circuit's holding that accrual of self-incrimination claims based on statements used at a criminal trial is deferred under Heck v.… |
| 18-7357 | David T. Frazier v. Stephen Crump, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-10 | Denied | IFP | 1983-suit civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights,due-process,civil-procedure,standing, due-process equal-protection favorable-termination heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey pro-se-litigant section-1983 time-bar | Is petitioners claims Time Barred Under The Favorable Termination Rule Founded under Heck V. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994) When he brought the 1983 su… |
| 18-6509 | John Tedesco v. Monroe County, Pennsylvania, et al. | Third Circuit | 2018-10-30 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process heck-v-humphrey prosecutorial-immunity rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 standing younger-abstention | Did Mr. Tedesco's complaint get dismissed with prejudice? |
| 18-6426 | Jonathan Eugene Brunson v. North Carolina, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2018-10-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidence evidence-access exhaustion-requirement heck-v-humphrey muhammad-v-close pennsylvania-v-ritchie section-1983 state-prisoners | Whether the Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477, 486-87 (1994) requirement for state prisoners to exhaust the state court remedy when applying to a section… |
| 18-6239 | Sean P. Reilly v. Guelsy M. Herrera, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-10-10 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus heck-v-humphrey limitations-period prisoner-rights section-1983 | Whether a Section 1983 Plaintiff can proceed with an action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when Heck v. Humphrey requirements are met but § 2254 Federal Habea… |
| 18-348 | Robert Weisler, III v. Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-17 | Denied | 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights Devenpeck-v-Alford fourth-amendment heck-v-humphrey police-accountability qualified-immunity warrantless-arrest | Whether Devenpeck v. Alford, which protects officers who either incompetently or maliciously arrest a person for a crime the arrestee did not commit, … | |
| 18-5485 | William N. Washington v. Eric Arnold, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-08 | Denied | IFP | civil-case civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process false-arrest habeas-corpus heck-v-humphrey judicial-review malicious-prosecution parole qualified-immunity standing washington-v-diamond | Whether a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right has been made by the petitioner, in light of the recent factual finding by the U… |
| 18-5404 | Craig Cooper v. Court of Appeal of California, First Appellate District, et al. | California | 2018-07-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus heck-v-humphrey stare-decisis | Under the doctrine of stare decisis, all tribunals exercising inferior jurisdiction are required to follow decisions of courts exercising superior jur… |
| 18-116 | John E. Reardon v. Daniel B. Zonies, et al. | Third Circuit | 2018-07-26 | Denied | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process fraud fraud-allegation heck-v-humphrey jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge legal-procedure ongoing-tort standing statute-of-limitations takings | Does Heck v Humphrey apply to a case with ongoing constitutional violations, lack of jurisdiction, and fraud over 115 years? |