Stephanie Ann Ripple, as Administratrix of the Estate of John Robert McCool v. Laurel R. Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al.

Whether the favorable-termination requirement of Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994), bars a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim brought by the estate of a prisoner who died in custody, rendering federal habeas corpus relief impossible through no fault of the decedent or the estate.

Whether applying Heck after a prisoner’s death extinguishes the only remaining damages remedy and thereby nullifies a state survival statute that 42 U.S.C. § 1988 requires federal courts to apply.

Whether a surviving child has standing under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to assert a substantive dueprocess claim for loss of familial association arising from deliberate indifference that caused a parent’s death in custody.