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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 03-6821.
    Nelson v. Campbell, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al.
   C. A. 11th Cir. Motion of Alabama Physicians, Laurie Dill, et al. for leave to file a brief as amici curiae granted. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis granted. Certiorari granted limited to the following question: “Whether a complaint brought under 42 U. S. C. § 1983 by a death-sentenced state prisoner, who seeks to stay, his execution in order to pursue a challenge to the for carrying out the execution, is properly recharacterized as a habeas corpus petition under 28 U. S. C. § 2254?”