Dan Carmichael McCarthan v. Director of Goodwill Industries-Suncoast, Inc.

I agree with the Majority that we incorrectly interpreted 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) on at least five occasions: Wofford v. Scott, 177 F.3d 1236 (11th Cir. 1999), Gilbert v. United States, 640 F.3d 1293 (11th Cir. 2011) (en banc), Williams v. Warden, Federal Bureau of Prisons, 713 F.3d 1332 (11th Cir. 2013), Bryant v. Warden, FCC Coleman-Medium, 738 F.3d 1253 (11th Cir. 2013), and Mackey v. Warden, FCC Coleman-Medium, 739 F.3d 657 (11th Cir. 2014). And today, unfortunately, makes a sixth.

Though the Majority is right when it concludes that the existence of adverse circuit precedent on a prisoner’s…