Dillon v. Conway

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the Second Circuit has “set a high bar to deem circumstances sufficiently ‘extraordinary’ to warrant equitable tolling”
• noting that the Second Circuit has “set a high bar to deem circumstances sufficiently ‘extraordinary’ to warrant equitable tolling”
• stating that where the petitioner’s state court conviction had become final on November 29, 2006, “[i]n order for his federal habeas petition to be timely, [he] was required to file it on or before November 29, 2007”
• equitable tolling warranted where attorney not only filed late, but “affirmatively and knowingly misle[d]” the client as to when he would file
• “Instances which justify equitable tolling include . . . an attorney’s failure to file a habeas petition on behalf of a prisoner, despite explicit directions from the prisoner to do so.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).