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Damages Suit Stayed While Habeas Pursued in Disciplinary Hearing Challenge
Loaded on Feb. 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
February, 1998, page 19
As the courts grapple with the question of when prisoners can sue for money damages under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when challenging disciplinary hearings that result in lost good time and when they must pursue habeas corpus remedies, the seventh circuit issued a clarifying ruling on the sequencing of such ...
Filed under:
Disciplinary Hearings,
Disciplinary Litigation,
Appeals,
Habeas Corpus.
Location:
Illinois.
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