· 9/10/2013
Armando Sossa v. Ralph M. Diaz
Citations
- 729 F.3d 1225
- 2013 WL 4792941
- 2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 18776
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- 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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