Biton v. Lippert

How courts have described this case

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• requiring strict compliance by prison officials with time limits set forth in prison’s own polices
• calling motion to revisit denial of an evidentiary hearing a \clearly merits-based attack[ ]\
• calling motion to revisit denial of an evidentiary hearing a “clearly merits-based attack[]”
• “[T]he question before us is not whether Rule 60(b) motions can reopen proceedings—they certainly can—but whether [petitioners] have actually alleged procedural defects cognizable under Rule 60(b).”
• “motions that ‘in effect ask for a second chance to have the merits determined favorably’ must be construed as successive habeas petitions regardless whether they are characterized as procedural attacks.”
• “motions that ‘in effect ask for a second chance to have the merits determined favorably’ must be construed as successive habeas petitions regardless whether they are characterized as procedural attacks.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).