Legal Opinion
Terry W. Miller v. Indiana Department of Corrections
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 5, 1996No. 93-1621PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ON MOTION TO PUBLISH
POSNER, Chief Judge.
An inmate of an Indiana state prison brought this suit for damages under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against his keepers. He claimed that he had been denied good-time credits, and thus had had to remain longer in prison, in violation of the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, because he had not been given a hearing before being placed in a prisoner classification that resulted in the denial of the credits. In an unpublished and therefore uncitable order issued on August 19, 1994, we held that his suit was barred by Heck v. Humphrey, — U.S.-, 114 S.Ct.…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Heck v. HumphreySupreme Court of the United States · 1994
- Carey v. PiphusSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Tony Best v. Sharon Pratt Kelly, MayorCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1994
- Schafer v. MooreCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1995
- Norman GOTCHER, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Tana WOOD, Et Al., Defendants-AppelleesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1995
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3Cited by52 opinions
- Jimmy Walker v. J.T. O'brien, and Joseph W. Finfrock v. Craig A. HanksCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2000
- Tommy Ray Lewis v. Thomas D. RichardsCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1997
- DeLeon v. City of Corpus ChristiCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2007
- David Allen Sheldon v. Thomas E. Hundley Grabowski, Sued as Major Grabowski Charles HarperCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1996
- Richard Carr v. Michael O'Leary and Michael P. LaneCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1999
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