Align Strategic Partners LLC v. Moesser

How courts have described this case

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• applying AEDPA deference to state-court decision on the merits of federal constitutional claims that were procedurally barred
• noting, but not deciding, the open question because the petitioner’s procedurally defaulted claims would in any event fail on the merits
• assuming without deciding that the petitioner could establish ineffective assistance of counsel as cause to excuse procedural default but rejecting the underlying federal constitutional claims on the merits
• “There is no doubt that ineffective assistance of counsel can serve as cause to excuse a procedural default.”
• applying the concurrent sentence doctrine to § 2254 petition
• acknowledging circuit split on the question

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).