Rare but Grudging Judicial About-Face in Bias Case

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2. Yes, it is.

The exact quote is "Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not
to reject it merely because it comes late." Its author was former U.
S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter, dissenting in
Henslee v. Union Planters Bank, 335 U.S. 600 (1948).

From the Legal Information Institute:

The Court held in Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994), that a state
prisoner may not maintain an action under 42 U.S. C. §1983 if the
direct or indirect effect of granting relief would be to invalidate
the state sentence he is serving. . .

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