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· 8/15/2008

Dagley v. Russo

Citations

  • 540 F.3d 8
  • 2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 17425
  • 2008 WL 3572678

How courts have described this case

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

  • recognizing that “[a] failure to cite Supreme Court decisions does not itself suggest a state court decision is ‘contrary to’ such precedents” .... “ ‘so long as neither the reasoning nor the result of the state-court decision contradicts them’ ”
  • finding equivalence where a state court considers all of the factors explicitly considered by its federal counterpart
  • \The SJC's approach in addressing Dagley's claim [relying on Massachusetts state law] was similar in substance to the approach taken by the Supreme Court[.]\

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Judges: Torruella, Gibson, Lipez

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