Ferran v. Town of Nassau

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• noting that the state court’s merits analysis “was only an alternative holding,” so the claim remained “procedurally defaulted” by virtue of the “adequate and independent” state procedural bar
• where state courts dismiss a federal claim on procedural grounds and then addresses the merits in the alternative, “we still honor the adequate and independent determination”

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