US Supreme Court

Today the US Supreme Court will hear arguments in Case No. 24-993. Gabriel Olivier v. City of Brandon, Mississippi, et al. Case No. 24-993 concerns whether 1) as the Fifth Circuit holds in conflict with the Ninth and Tenth Circuits, this Court's decision in Heck v. Humphrey bars 1983 claims seeking purely prospective relief where the plaintiff has been punished before under the law challenged as unconstitutional, and 2) whether, as the Fifth Circuit and at least four others hold in conflict with five other circuits, Heck v. Humphrey bars 1983 claims by plaintiffs even where they never had access to federal habeas relief.