United States Fourth Circuit

28 USC 2244(d)(2) does not toll the one-year limitations period while a petition for writ of certiorari is pending before the US Supreme Court.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/07/2000
• Decided 07/16/2001
• Published 07/16/2001

Judges

• Before WIDENER and KING, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Susan Frietsche, Women's Law Project, Philadelphia, PA, for Appellant.  Tracey Colton Green, Office of the Attorney General, Columbia, SC, for Appellees.   ON BRIEF:  David S. Cohen, Lynn M. Paltrow, Women'S Law Project, Seth Kreimer, Philadelphia, PA;  C. Rauch Wise, Greenwood, SC;  David Rudovsky, Kairys, Rudovsky, Epstein, Messing & Rau, Philadelphia, PA, for Appellant.  Charles M. Condon, Attorney General, John W. McIntosh, Chief Deputy Attorney General, Donald J. Zelenka, Assistant Deputy Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, Columbia, SC, for Appellees.  Daniel N. Abrahamson, San Francisco, CA, for Amici Curiae.