As best as I can (meaning time-permitting), every week I am going to be posting a "Weekly Review" of habeas decisions from the federal district courts in New York. It will be far from exhaustive since not every decision gets published on Westlaw, and I am going to be getting these off Westlaw (for non-laywers, it's one of the two leading legal databases, LEXIS being the other).
I will just list the cases, state the result, mention the claims that were raised, and provide notes where there is something interesting.
I am not sure if this will be overly useful to anybody. I think it will. Maybe I should say, I hope it will. At least, it will give some insight, and provide a window, into what's happening out in habeasland.
Note: I will be providing the "blue book" cites for the cases. The "blue book" provides the rules for the citation of authority that most lawyers use. It will be pretty obvious what it all means, except the letters in parentheses at the end. Those are the initials of the judge deciding the case. If there are two sets of initials, the first is the district court judge and the second is the magistrate judge (I promise a post on magistrate judges).
One other, more important, note: This is a new font. I am going to experiment with fonts until I find one I like.
I will just list the cases, state the result, mention the claims that were raised, and provide notes where there is something interesting.
I am not sure if this will be overly useful to anybody. I think it will. Maybe I should say, I hope it will. At least, it will give some insight, and provide a window, into what's happening out in habeasland.
Note: I will be providing the "blue book" cites for the cases. The "blue book" provides the rules for the citation of authority that most lawyers use. It will be pretty obvious what it all means, except the letters in parentheses at the end. Those are the initials of the judge deciding the case. If there are two sets of initials, the first is the district court judge and the second is the magistrate judge (I promise a post on magistrate judges).
One other, more important, note: This is a new font. I am going to experiment with fonts until I find one I like.
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