McCall v. Dretke

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that a prisoner suffers actionable harm and thus may bring a § 2254 application when authorities determine his eligibility for release and he need not wait until he would otherwise be eligible for release
• explaining that standing is an essential component of federal subject matter jurisdiction
• application of intervening change in law is not ex post facto violation when it is not ‘an additional penalty for earlier crimes,’ but [rather] ‘a stiffened penalty for the latest crime’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).