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GOMEZ v. UNITED STATES DIST. COURT FOR NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

No. A-767.

503 U.S. 653 (1992)

GOMEZ et al. v. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA et al.

United States Supreme Court.

Decided April 21, 1992.

Per Curiam.

Robert Alton Harris brought a 42 U. S. C. § 1983 action claiming that execution by lethal gas is cruel and unusual in violation of the Eighth Amendment. This action is an obvious attempt to avoid the application of McCleskey v. Zant, 499 U.S. 467 (1991), to bar this successive claim for relief. Harris has now filed four prior federal habeas petitions. He has made no convincing showing of cause for his...

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