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· 9/10/2013

Armando Sossa v. Ralph M. Diaz

Citations

  • 729 F.3d 1225
  • 2013 WL 4792941
  • 2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 18776

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding petitioner entitled to equitable tolling where he reasonably relied on a magistrate judge’s orders extending his habeas filing deadline
  • holding 9 petitioner entitled to equitable tolling where he reasonably relied on a magistrate judge’s orders 10 extending his habeas filing deadline
  • holding petitioner entitled to equitable tolling where he reasonably relied on a magistrate judge’s orders extending his habeas filing deadline
  • recognizing that equitable tolling involves a fact-intensive inquiry
  • stating that equitable tolling 16 is only available “when extraordinary circumstances beyond a prisoner’s control make it 17 impossible to file a petition on time and the extraordinary circumstances were the cause of 18 the [petition’s] untimeliness”
  • describing extraordinary circumstances as those circumstances “beyond a prisoner’s control” and attributable to “an external force”

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Judges: Paez, Watford, Kennelly

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