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· 3/1/1978

Ishmail Muslin Ali (Formerly Ishmael X. La Beet) v. Winston Gibson, Commissioner of Public Safety

Citations

  • 572 F.2d 971
  • 15 V.I. 548

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that the District Court of the Virgin Islands is not a district court within meaning of 28 U.S.C. § 2241
  • “At most [petitioner’s] claims rise to a possible habeas attack on the conditions of confinement, cognizable in a federal habeas action only in extreme cases.”
  • “At most [petitioner’s] claims rise to a possible habeas attack on the conditions of confinement, cognizable in a federal habeas action only in extreme cases.”
  • District Court of the Virgin Islands not a United States district court for federal habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241(a)
  • petitioner’s claim rose “to a possible habeas attack on the conditions of confinement, cognizable in a federal habeas action only in extreme cases”
  • remanding case to the district court for further proceedings

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Adams, Rosenn, Hunter

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