Mark F. Taylor v. Billie J. Michael

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• reasoning that a petitioner's failure to pursue his rights for months at a time weighed against equitable tolling
• noting that a petitioner’s lack of action for months tends to show that he has not acted with reasonable diligence
• “Lack of familiarity with the law ... is not a circumstance that justifies equitable tolling.”
• “When an inmate, despite roadblocks thrown in his way, has reasonable time remaining to file a habeas petition in a timely manner, the circumstances cannot, as a definitional matter, be said to have prevented timely filing, as the standard requires.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).