United States Fourth Circuit

Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994), does not bar plaintiff from invoking 42 U.S.C. section 1983 to assert a claim for damages against defendant-law enforcement officers for violating his extradition rights.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/16/2005
• Decided 06/24/2005
• Published 06/24/2005

Judges

• Before MICHAEL and KING, Circuit Judges, and JAMES R. SPENCER, Chief United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Joseph Kim, Student Counsel, Georgetown University Law Center, Appellate Litigation Program, Washington, D.C., for Appellant.  John Benjamin Aplin, South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole & Pardon Service, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellees.   ON BRIEF:  Steven H. Goldblatt, Director, Alistair E. Newbern, Supervising Attorney, Rakhi Patel, Student Counsel, Georgetown University Law Center, Appellate Litigation Program, Washington, D.C., for Appellant.