Booker v. Singletary

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that relief from “judgment under Rule 60(b)(6) is an extraordinary remedy”
• “Something more than a ‘mere’ change in the law is necessary to provide the grounds for Rule 60(b)(6) relief.” (quotation marks and alterations omitted)
• “Something more than a ‘mere’ change in the law is necessary to provide the grounds for Rule 60(b)(6) relief.” (quotation marks and alterations omitted)
• finding prejudice under Brecht because “we were unable to speculate as to the effect of the disregarded ‘substantial [mitigating] evidence would have had on the sentencing body’”
• “The vacation of a judgment under Rule 60(b)(6) is an extraordinary remedy.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).