SCOTUS Case
Rose v. Lundy
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Background
Rose v. Lundy — U.S. Supreme Court case. This entry links to the full opinion in the CourtListener corpus.
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- “[A]s a matter of comity, federal courts should not consider a claim in a habeas corpus petition until after the state courts have had an opportunity to act.”
- “In 20 sum, because a total exhaustion rule promotes comity and does not 21 unreasonably impair the prisoner’s right to relief, we hold that a district court 22 must dismiss habeas petitions containing both unexhausted and exhausted 23 claims.”
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