United States Third Circuit

Dismissal of a 28 U.S.C. section 2241 habeas petition is affirmed under the "abuse of the writ" doctrine expressed in McCleskey v. Grant, 499 U.S. 467.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/04/2002
• Decided 11/18/2002
• Published 11/18/2002

Judges

• Before SLOVITER and AMBRO, Circuit Judges, and POLLAK, District Judge.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Daniel I. Siegel,James V. Wade, Office of Federal Public Defender, Harrisburg, PA, Melinda C. Ghilardi (Argued), Office of Federal Public Defender, Scranton, PA, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert D. McCallum, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Christopher C. Fuller, Senior Litigation Counsel, Lyle D. Jentzer (Argued), United States Department of Justice, Office of Immigration Litigation, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Appellee.