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How courts have described this case

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• ruling that a party in a habeas case waives an argument on appeal by failing to raise the same argument before the district court
• holding that the law of the case doctrine prevented a district court from reconsidering whether a habeas corpus petition was “second or successive” because the appellate court, in previously deciding so, had implicitly asserted its jurisdiction
• finding that Rule 6(b)(2) prohibits equitable tolling of the filing deadline in Rule 59(e)
• finding that Rule 6(b)(2) prohibits equitable tolling of the filing deadline in Rule 59(e)
• interpreting Rule 59(e) to allow alteration of final orders as well as judgments
• “The law-of-the-case doctrine ... renders a determination by the court of appeals binding upon the district court in subsequent stages of the same litigation.”

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