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HABEAS CORPUS RES. CTR. v. U.S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE

No. 14-16928.

816 F.3d 1241 (2016)

HABEAS CORPUS RESOURCE CENTER; Office of the Federal Public Defender for the District of Arizona, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE; Loretta E. Lynch, Attorney General, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed March 23, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samantha Lee Chaifetz (argued), Melissa N. Patterson , and Michael Raab , United States Department of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, D.C., for Defendants-Appellants.

Marc Shapiro (argued), Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, New York, NY; George E. Greer , Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, Seattle, WA; Shannon Christine Leong , Catherine Y. Lui , and Darren S. Teshima , Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Kent S. Scheidegger , Criminal Legal Foundation, Sacramento, CA, for Amici Curiae Marc Klaas and Edward G. Hardesty.

Before: DIARMUID F. O'SCANNLAIN, BARRY G. SILVERMAN, and CARLOS T. BEA, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

Title 28, chapter 154 of the United States Code ("Chapter 154") permits the "fast-tracking" of federal habeas cases for capital prisoners from states that offer competent counsel to indigent capital prisoners during state postconviction proceedings. See 28 U.S.C. §§ 2261-2266. "Fast-tracking...

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