Oscar Archie Clifton v. Attorney General of the State of California Board of Prison Terms

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• discussing both Moitie and State Farm and rejecting argument that State Farm should govern
• “For us to conclude . . . that the district court’s order has become an ‘instrument of wrong’ 27 merely because it rests on a since repudiated rationale would be to nullify the doctrine of res judicata.”
• “[W]hile a writ of habeas corpus may resemble injunctive relief to the extent that 10 the writ requires state officials to cease enforcing a statute with regard to a particular petitioner, a 11 habeas writ does not grant injunctive relief.”

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