· 7/29/1941
Nicholson v. Williams & Shelton Co.
Citations
- 121 F.2d 740
- 1941 U.S. App. LEXIS 3316
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- holding that, where the transferor court had failed to address the issue, the transferee district court erred by not resolving the jurisdictional question before proceeding to the merits
- holding that a district court erred when transferring 8 an action without first determining whether a §2241 remedy under the §2255(e) savings clause.
- noting that federal prisoner petitions that “challenge the manner, location, or conditions 8 of a sentence’s execution must be brought pursuant to § 2241 in the custodial court”
- \Federal courts are always under an independent obligation to examine their own jurisdiction.\ (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
- “[P]etitions that challenge the manner, location, or conditions of a sentence’s execution must be brought pursuant to § 2241 in the custodial court.”
- “petitions that 13 challenge the manner, location, or conditions of a sentence’s execution must be brought pursuant 14 to § 2241 in the custodial court.”
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