Andre L. Phillips v. Richard P. Seiter, Glenn Watson v. Jeffrey J. Clark

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• holding that it is appropriate for district courts to take a “peek at the merits” when deciding whether a transfer is in the interests of justice
• holding that it is appropriate for district courts to take a “peek at the merits” when deciding whether a transfer is in the interests of justice
• concluding that transfer was unwarranted because the 10|| habeas petitions were clearly untimely
• noting that it would be a “waste of judicial resources” to transfer cases, such as time-barred cases, that are “clearly doomed”
• noting that it is a waste of judicial resources to require the transfer of frivolous, time-barred cases
• noting that it is a waste of judicial resources to require the transfer of frivolous, time-barred cases

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).