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Parties Involved:
Robert Horel
Defendant
Irvin Terrell Tatum
Plaintiff

Document Text:

United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

IRVIN TERRELL TATUM,

Petitioner,

 vs.

ROBERT HOREL, Warden,

Respondent. /

No. C 08-3680 WHA (PR) 

ORDER FOR PETITIONER TO

SHOW CAUSE

This is a habeas case filed pro se by a state prisoner. He seeks to challenge a rules

violation conviction which resulted in his being placed in the Security Housing Unit. 

Habeas is the proper form of action only if success would implicate the fact of or

duration of petitioner’s confinement, so it may be that this claim is not properly the subject of a

habeas action. See Moran v. Sondalle, 218 F.3d 647, 650-52 (7th Cir. 2000); Badea v. Cox, 931

F.2d 573, 574 (9th Cir. 1991) (civil rights action is proper method of challenging conditions of

confinement); Crawford v. Bell, 599 F.2d 890, 891-92 & n.1 (9th Cir. 1979) (affirming

dismissal of habeas petition on basis that challenges to terms and conditions of confinement

must be brought in civil rights complaint). 

Attachments to the petition show that because state procedural time requirements were

not met, petitioner suffered no loss of good time as a result of the conviction. It thus may be

that the rules violation conviction will not have any effect on the length of petitioner’s

incarceration. 

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United States District Court

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Petitioner shall show cause within thirty days of the date this order is entered why the

case should not be dismissed as not properly brought in habeas. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: August 8 , 2008. 

WILLIAM ALSUP

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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