Burgos v. New York Presbyterian Hospital

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that the “holding of a published panel opinion binds all later panels unless overruled or abrogated en banc or by the Supreme Court”
• holding that a federal prisoner cannot bring such a claim “without showing that he had no prior reasonable opportunity to bring his argument for relief”
• acknowledging that alternate, independent holdings may exist but reaffirming that “a conclusion that does nothing to determine the outcome is dictum and has no binding force”
• ruling that a federal prisoner “cannot bring an actual innocence claim in a § 2241 petition through the savings clause without showing that he had no prior -6- reasonable opportunity to bring his argument for relief.”
• explaining that a holding requires the court to have “consciously reached a conclusion about” the issue
• noting that holdings of other circuit courts of appeal do not bind courts in the Sixth Circuit

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).