Bank of the United States v. Halstead

How courts have described this case

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• upholding the power to legislate to “carry into complete effect the judgments of the Courts”
• Congress may legislate form and effect of executions on judgments recovered in federal courts
• “We have stated many times that federal habeas corpus relief does 24 not lie for errors of state law.”
• “It is not enough that a federal habeas court, in its independent review of the 24 legal question, is left with a firm conviction that the state court was erroneous.” (internal citations 25 and quotation marks omitted.)
• “The filing of a notice of appeal is an event of jurisdictional significance – it 24 confers jurisdiction on the court of appeals and divests the district court of its control over those 25 aspects of the case involved in the appeal.”

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