Certiorari denied.
JUSTICE WHITE, with whom JUSTICE O'CONNOR joins, dissenting.
This petition raise the questions whether the exhaustion requirement of 28 U. S. C. § 2254 applies when state prisoners, in a suit under 42 U. S. C. § 1983, challenge the duration or conditions of their confinement but seek only damages or declaratory relief. The Eighth Circuit held here that exhaustion is required for § 1983 actions which include challenges to the...
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