HOUCK v. MOSER

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA THOMAS FRANKLIN HOUCK, : Petitioner : v. : Case No. 3:20-cv-255-KAP VICKY MOSER, WARDEN, : F.C.I. LORETTO, : Respondent : Memorandum Order In Hope v. Warden York County Prison,

972 F.3d 310, 325

(3d Cir. 2020) a panel of the Court of Appeals held that a claim by alien detainees that they should be released because the risk to them from the COVID-19 pandemic constituted unconstitutional conditions of confinement was cognizable in a petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C.§ 2241(c)(3). In the course of…