Klein v. Fields

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that district courts retain jurisdiction over petitioners who were transferred after properly filing their petition
• holding that the District Court for the District of New Jersey retained jurisdiction when habeas petitioner was transferred outside of the district during the pendency of the case
• holding that the District Court for the District of New Jersey retained jurisdiction over a habeas petitioner that was transferred outside of the district during the pendency of the case
• explaining that a habeas petitioner “cannot use Rule 60(b) to sidestep an application of AEDPA's gatekeeping mechanism.”
• explaining that a § 2241 petition must be filed in the district of confinement
• stating that “[t]he logic of this rule rests in an understanding that the warden . . . has day-to-day control over the prisoner and . . . can produce the actual body”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).