Chavez v. Secretary Florida Department of Corrections

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that an attorney’s failure to act quickly enough to allow timely filing of a federal habeas petition is not in itself sufficient to warrant equitable tolling
• opining a petitioner bears the burden of establishing the need for an evidentiary hearing with more than speculative and inconcrete claims of need
• opining a petitioner bears the burden of establishing the need for an evidentiary hearing with more than speculative and inconcrete claims of need
• “Making district courts dig through volumes of documents and transcripts would shift the burden of sifting from petitioners to the courts. . . . [A] district court cannot be expected to do a petitioner’s work for [her].”
• “[D]istrict court judges are not required to ferret out delectable facts buried in a massive record . . . .”
• “With a typically heavy caseload and always limited resources, a district court cannot be expected to do a petitioner’s work for him.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).