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PHELPS v. ALAMEIDA

No. 07-15167.

569 F.3d 1120 (2009)

Kevin PHELPS, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Edward ALAMEIDA, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed June 25, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert Joel Kutchins, Berkeley, CA, for the petitioner-appellant.

Juliet B. Haley, Deputy Attorney General, San Francisco, CA, for the respondent-appellee.

Before: MYRON H. BRIGHT, STEPHEN REINHARDT and A. WALLACE TASHIMA, Circuit Judges.

REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:

For over eleven years, Kevin Phelps has sought to present his petition for habeas corpus to a federal judge. For over eleven years, he has been unsuccessful. Given the trend these last decades on the part of Congress and the Supreme Court "increasingly to bar the federal courthouse door to litigants with substantial federal claims,"1 habeas petitioners...

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