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· 2/10/2000

United States v. Luis G. Leon

Citations

  • 203 F.3d 162
  • 2000 U.S. App. LEXIS 2084

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that a district court lacks jurisdiction to consider a request for an extension of time to file a § 2255 motion until the prisoner actually files such a motion
  • concluding that this Court lacks jurisdiction to consider an appeal of the denial of a motion to submit an untimely petition that was filed in the absence of an actual § 2255 petition
  • holding 11 that a federal court lacks jurisdiction to consider the timeliness of a § 2255 petition 12 until a petition is actually filed
  • finding that a district court lacks jurisdiction to consider the timeliness of a petition until the petition is actually filed because there is no case or controversy to be heard, and any opinion would be merely advisory
  • federal court lacks jurisdiction to consider request to extend time to file motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255
  • federal court lacks jurisdiction to consider the timeliness of habeas petition until a petition is actually filed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Oakes, Cabranes, Sack

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