Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Jennings-Jones v. Children's Harbor, Inc.
Jennings-Jones v. Children's Harbor, Inc., 531 U.S. 1194 (2001)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 2001-02-26
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- holding ignorance of law, delays caused by inmate law clerk, and inaccessibility of law library do not create “extraordinary” circumstances which merit equitable tolling
- refusing to toll the AEDPA’s limitation period because a pro se petitioner did not understand , the dictates of the .statutory scheme
- regarding the tolling of the limitations period of 2244(d) concerning an application for a writ for-habeas corpus
- “[Equitable tolling] is only available when an inmate diligently pursues his claims and demonstrates that the failure to timely file was caused by extraordinary circumstances beyond his control”
- pro se status and ignorance of the law
Citator
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C. A. 11th Cir. Certiorari denied.