Brief filed: 02/25/2005
Documents
Gonzalez v. Crosby
United States Supreme Court; Case No. 04-6432
Argument(s)
Author(s)
Prof. M Aya Gruber, et al., Florida International University College of Law.
Gonzalez v. Crosby
NACDL amicus curiae brief. Whether the Anti-terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA)'s habeas restrictions on second or successive petitions preclude the use of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b) to reopen a final judgment. Successive habeas petitions and Rule 60(b) motions are distinct applications to the court, which serve different purposes, raise different issues, seek different relief, and thus do not overlap.