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against foreclosure by local taxing authorities to enforce due property taxes. After the
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Supreme Court reversed the Ninth Circuit Court's decision, noting that "On federal habeas review, AEDPA 'imposes a highly deferential standard for evaluating state-court rulings' and 'demands that state-court decisions be given the benefit of the doubt.'" Moreover, "The state appellate court’s
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In 1997, a jury found Joseph
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Federal District Court found that the state courts' decisions were not unreasonable and denied Jackson's petition, but was reversed by the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in a three-paragraph memorandum opinion, without discussing any facts or
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Supreme Court vacated the Seventh Circuit's ruling. The Court ruled that Federal courts may only grant a writ of habeas corpus if a violation of federal law is found. Federal courts may not grant habeas relief if, instead, the only issue raised is a potential violation of state law.
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decisions are issued from the Court as an institution, these opinions all lack the attribution of authorship or joining votes to specific justices. All justices on the Court at the time the decision was handed down are assumed to have participated and concurred unless otherwise noted.
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Ginsburg, Breyer, and Sotomayor noted without separate opinion that they would remand the case to the Ninth Circuit for that court’s consideration of mootness in the first instance. Kagan did not participate in the consideration or decision of the case.
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1998); postconviction petition denied; aff'd, No. 05-4420, 2000 WL 1433952 (Ohio Ct. App. Sept. 28, 2000); motion to reopen appeal denied, No. 68612, 2002 WL 1335629 (Ohio Ct. App. May 10, 2002); aff'd, 784 N.E.2d 698 (Ohio 2003);
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California Court of Appeal, and the California Supreme Court denied Jackson's
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List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 564
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111:], Indiana State Prison v. Joseph E. Corcoran
295:City of Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation of N.Y.
1599:United States Supreme Court per curiam opinions
355:The case involved the issue of whether tribal
311:Oneida Indian Nation of N.Y. v. Madison County
304:Oneida Indian Nation of N.Y. v. Madison County
1578:Certiorari dismissed as improvidently granted
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461:T. Felkner v. Steven Frank Jackson
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682:United States v. Juvenile Male
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441:Ninth Circuit reversed.
269:Madison County, New York
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1501:Intellectual property
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1192:List of cases by Court
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766:Leal Garcia v. Texas
662:Decided May 2, 2011.
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