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GREENE v. FISHER

No. 10-637.

132 S.Ct. 38 (2011)

181 L.Ed.2d 336

Eric GREENE, aka Jarmaine Q. Trice, Petitioner, v. Jon FISHER, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 8, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey L. Fisher , Stanford, CA, for Petitioner.

Ronald Eisenberg , Philadelphia, PA, for Respondents.

Isabel McGinty , Isabel McGinty, LLC, Hightstown, NJ, Thomas C. Goldstein , Amy Howe , Kevin K. Russell , Goldstein, Howe & Russell, P.C., Bethesda, MD, Jeffrey L. Fisher , Counsel of Record, Pamela S. Karlan , Stanford Law School, Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, Stanford, CA, for Petitioner.

Ronald Eisenberg , Deputy District Attorney, (Counsel of Record), Susan E. Affronti , Asst. District Attorney, Thomas W. Dolgenos , Chief Federal Litigation, Edward F. McCann, Jr. , Acting 1st Asst. Dist. Atty., R. Seth Williams , District Attorney, Philadelphia District Attorney's Office, Philadelphia, PA, for Respondents.

Justice SCALIA delivered the opinion of the Court.

Under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA), a federal court may not grant habeas relief to a state prisoner with respect to any claim that has been "adjudicated on the merits in State court proceedings" unless the state-court adjudication "resulted in a decision that was contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly established Federal law, as determined by the Supreme...

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