federal-court-deference

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22-7270 Lamont McKoy v. Todd Ishee, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Adult Correction Fourth Circuit 2023-04-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP actual-innocence aedpa due-process federal-court-deference federal-review habeas-corpus state-court-findings Whether the presumption of correctness under § 2254(e)(1) requires a determination on a factual issue by a state court or whether merely presenting a …
19-5438 Jimmy Fletcher Meders v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-02 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 anti-flyspecking-rule circuit-court-procedure clearly-established-law eleventh-circuit federal-court-deference federal-review habeas habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review section-2254 standard-of-review state-court-decision state-court-deference wilson-v-sellers Whether the Eleventh Circuit's adherence to its 'no-grading-papers-anti-flyspecking-rule' is incompatible with Wilson-v-Sellers
18-8592 Wendell Arden Grissom v. Mike Carpenter, Interim Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied IFP accuracy-of-factfinding aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act capital-proceedings federal-court-deference heightened-standard-of-reliability procedural-fairness To what extent, if any, should a federal court defer to prior state court factfinding and adjudication under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Pen…
18-5275 Christopher Counts v. Eddie Wilson, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-issues deference due-process due-process-clause ex-parte federal-court-deference judicial-order retroactive-application state-court-order summary-judgment Does federal court deference to an ex parte judicial order violate due process?