PER CURIAM.
We have consolidated five cases in which prisoners required to litigate under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 instead sought writs of habeas corpus. The Prison Litigation Reform Act, which applies to prisoners' civil suits, imposes requirements different from those of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, which governs collateral attacks on confinement, making it important to classify cases correctly. See, e.g., Pischke v. Litscher,
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