Legal Opinion
Phelps v. Alameida
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 25, 2009No. 07-15167PublishedCited by 104 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:
For over eleven years, Kevin Phelps has sought to present his petition for habeas corpus to a federal judge. For over eleven years, he has been unsuccessful. Given the trend these last decades on the part of Congress and the Supreme Court “increasingly to bar the federal courthouse door to litigants with substantial federal claims,” 1 habeas petitioners — including petitioners who may have suffered severe deprivations of their constitutional rights — now face myriad procedural hurdles specifically designed to restrict their access to the once-Great Writ. In this…
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