John Lynch v. James Blodgett

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• holding that the “obvious purpose” of the predecessor version of section 2253 was to create “discretionary appellate review for habeas petitions filed by state prisoners”
• holding that a CPC should issue only if the petitioner “has made a substantial showing that the district court abused its discretion by denying the Rule 60(b) motion”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).