COURTNEY v. BUTLER

No. 21-2697.

66 F.4th 1043 (2023)

James COURTNEY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Kimberly BUTLER, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 3, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin McIntosh , Attorney, SWMW Law, LLC, St. Louis, MO, Timothy J. Wolf , Attorney, Watters Wolf Bub & Hansmann LLC, St. Louis, MO, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Christopher M. R. Turner , Attorney, Office of the Attorney General, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before Rovner, Hamilton, and Brennan, Circuit Judges.


This appeal presents a new question on the scope of the Supreme Court's decision in Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477, 114 S.Ct. 2364, 129 L.Ed.2d 383 (1994), which forecloses civil litigation that would call into question the validity of a state criminal conviction or sentence that has...

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