COOK v. FOSTER

No. 18-2214.

948 F.3d 896 (2020)

Terez COOK, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Brian FOSTER, Warden, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 29, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Erin M. McGinley , Attorney, JONES DAY, Chicago, IL, Parker Andrew Rider-Longmaid, Esq. , Attorney, Eric Cheung Hall , Attorney, Sarah Levine , Attorney, JONES DAY, Washington, DC, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Daniel J. O'Brien , Assistant Attorney General, OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, Madison, WI, for Respondent-Appellee.

Before Wood, Chief Judge, and Barrett and Scudder, Circuit Judges.


Federal courts do not lightly grant petitions for a writ of habeas corpus brought by state prisoners. As the Supreme Court put it in Harrington v. Richter, 562 U.S. 86, 131 S.Ct. 770, 178 L.Ed.2d 624 (2011), if the "standard [for relief] is difficult to meet...

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