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5 Dec 2008, 12:22 pm
The banished members filed suit alleging that their civil rights were violated by the banishment, and filed a Writ of Habeas Corpus charging a violation of the Indian Civil Rights Act. [read post]
25 Jun 2010, 2:36 pm by zshapiro
Several times we have discussed the habeas corpus related sections of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA). [read post]
11 Oct 2006, 10:31 pm
  Many years later, the federal courts reversed his murder conviction (that is, granted a writ of habeas corpus). [read post]
4 Apr 2012, 8:30 am by Second Circuit Civil Rights Blog
This case has two noteworthy rulings, both governed by the watered-down habeas corpus standard of review that federal courts apply under the mid-1990's law that allows state-court criminal convictions to stand so long as the state courts do not unreasonably apply the U.S. [read post]
25 Feb 2007, 10:35 pm
What this history shows is that there were no legal black-holes at common law, not that sovereignty was the touchstone, let alone the sine qua non, of habeas jurisdiction.In fact, in no case before 1789 was the common law writ of habeas corpus held not to extend to territory under the crown's exclusive control and jurisdiction. [read post]
13 May 2009, 1:34 pm
May 12-13, 2009 To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. [read post]
3 Sep 2010, 6:36 am by Second Circuit Civil Rights Blog
You rarely see any interplay between qualified immunity and habeas corpus standards in the same case. [read post]
2 Apr 2007, 8:47 am
S. 288, 341 (1936) (Brandeis, J., concurring), and our practice of requiring the exhaustion of available remedies as a precondition to accepting jurisdiction over applications for the writ of habeas corpus, cf. [read post]
23 Nov 2005, 12:46 am
She oversees the statewide panel.There were 54 habeas corpus cases of Oklahoma death-row inmates in the most recent fiscal year, she said.In a "friend of the court" written argument, Otto sided with Presson, calling the appeal "a question of exceptional importance. [read post]
6 Jan 2011, 4:08 pm by Lyle Denniston
  Here is the question the petition sought to raise:  “Whether, in a habeas corpus action brought by an individual held in United States territory, including Guantanamo, (a) Munaf v. [read post]
20 Jul 2016, 12:15 pm
The U.S. government successfully appealed that decision, and the habeas case is still pending. [read post]
4 Jun 2009, 1:03 am
Moreover, the insanity defense would not have likely succeeded given that the psychiatrist's insanity determination was contingent upon a number of conditional assumptions.Because this was a habeas corpus case, there was no underlying court of appeals opinion. [read post]
11 Mar 2020, 1:20 pm by lennyesq
One of the consequences of the increase in petitions from Batavia is an overall increase in habeas corpus cases being filed here. *** Read more… [read post]
9 Nov 2011, 2:22 pm by Benjamin Wittes
Judge Janice Rogers Brown, for the majority, expressly adopts a presumption in favor of the government’s evidence in Guantanamo habeas cases–something the lower courts had declined to do on which the D.C. [read post]
11 Apr 2007, 9:16 am
  But the discussion of the constitutional rights of U.S. citizens in Eisentrager was dicta (since the case was about enemy aliens convicted by a military tribunal), and Rasul was about the scope of the federal habeas _statute_, and not the constitutional right to habeas corpus. [read post]
27 Feb 2013, 11:47 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Hundreds of drug cases will likely be overturned via habeas corpus writs after it was revealed last year that DPS lab analyst Jonathon Salvador fabricated results while testing a batch of Alprazolam tablets. [read post]
25 Jul 2018, 1:55 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Our Forensic Science Commission is the best in the country, according to Innocence Project cofounder Peter Neufeld, and our first-of-its-kind junk science writ has made Texas one of only two states (California followed suit) with the means in place to challenge junk science in old convictions through habeas corpus writs.The most commonly used forensics that were questioned by the National Academy of Sciences 2009 report, "Strengthening Forensic Science: A Path Forward" -… [read post]