Huddleston v. Bloomingdale's By Mail Ltd.

How later courts describe this case

• holding that “[a] state cannot be said to have a federal due process obligation to follow all of its procedures; such a system would result in the constitutionalizing of every state rule, and would not be administrable”
• “A petitioner ‘fairly presents’ his claim to the state courts by citing a provision of the Constitution, federal decisions using constitutional analysis, or state decisions employing constitutional analysis in similar fact patterns.”
• “A number of courts have held that the question of mental competency is a mixed question of law and fact. We agree. Because the state court’s determination that Levine was mentally ill and dangerous was a mixed question of fact and law, it is not entitled to section 2254(d