Larry Gross v. E. Heikien Larry Brimeyer Co Phillips B. Soupene John Sissel Charles Lee

LOKEN, Circuit Judge.

Our decision in Offet v. Solem, 823 F.2d 1256 (8th Cir.1987), required Larry Gross, an inmate at the Iowa Men’s Reformatory, to exhaust his state post-conviction remedies before pursuing this § 1983 action against defendant prison officials for discipline that allegedly violated his constitu tional rights. After the state court held that the discipline was constitutional, the district court 1 dismissed this action as “barred in its entirety by collateral estop-pel.” On appeal, Gross argues that the federal habeas corpus exception to collateral estoppel should apply…