merits-standard
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-52 | Terence Clark, Director, Prince George's County Department of Corrections, et al. v. Jeremiah Antoine Sweeney | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-15 | Judgment Issued | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | AEDPA exhaustion-requirement fourth-circuit habeas-corpus merits-standard party-presentation | The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) prohibits federal courts from granting habeas relief on any claim alleged by a habeas petiti… |
| 19-147 | Michael Baraka Mason v. Daniel Paramo, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-01 | Denied | certificate-of-appealability federalism-and-comity habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-based-standard merits-standard plainly-meritless procedural-complexity reasonable-probability reasonable-probability-of-different-outcome rhines-stay | Whether a habeas petitioner who seeks a Rhines stay to exhaust a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel must establish a 'reasonable probability o… |