Kaeun Kim v. Mark Ali, et al.

Whether a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim that state officials fabricated evidence against the petitioner accrues only upon favorable termination of the criminal proceedings (consistent with McDonough v. Smith, 139 S. Ct 2149 (2019)), and whether the lower courts erred in dismissing such a claim as time-barred despite the petitioner’s recent discovery of the fabrication.

Whether, in light of Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994), a civil-rights claim that would impugn an ongoing criminal prosecution should be dismissed outright or instead stayed pending the outcome of the criminal case - an issue on which courts are divided, and which implicates the petitioner’s ability to seek redress for egregious misconduct (fabrication of evidence) before it is too late.

Whether a private corporation and its employees who coordinated with police and prosecutors to detain the petitioner and fabricate incriminating evidence can be held liable under § 1983 as acting