The following excerpt is from Delgado v. Superior Court of Cal., No. 1:20-cv-01059-DAD-EPG (E.D. Cal. 2020):
preserves the rule that claims which, if successful, would necessarily imply the invalidity of a conviction or sentence, must be brought by way of a petition for writ of habeas corpus, after exhausting appropriate avenues for relief. Muhammad v. Close, 540 U.S. 749, 750-751 (2004).
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