Legal Opinion
Jerald Thomas v. Unknown Eby
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided March 30, 2007No. 05-1203PublishedCited by 551 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KAREN NELSON MOORE, Circuit Judge.
Inmate Jerald Thomas filed this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging that a prison guard retaliated against him for exercising his First Amendment rights. The district court concluded that if Thomas won his case, the victory would shorten his period of custodial detention. Accordingly, the district court concluded that the habeas exception to § 1983 barred Thomas’s complaint, which the district court dismissed sua sponte. Because a victory for Thomas would have at most the potential to decrease his period of detention and because Thomas has alleged…
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