limitations-defense

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22-6593 Steven C. Heiser v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion certificate-of-appealability certiorari-jurisdiction due-process habeas-corpus limitations-defense party-presentation statute-of-limitations sua-sponte Did the district court abuse its discretion when it sua sponte dismissed Heiser's habeas petition by overriding the state's deliberate waiver of the l…
22-5268 Anthony Peters v. Tim Hooper, Warden Fifth Circuit 2022-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process federal-court-jurisdiction federal-courts habeas-corpus limitations-defense petition-dismissal procedural-timeliness state-court-review state-courts timeliness Whether a federal court lacks authority, on its own initiative, to dismiss a habeas petition as untimely, once the State's highest court has answered …