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Ben Cheng Petitions to Watch

Posted Mon, December 17th, 2012 11:01 pm

Petitions of the day

The petitions of the day are:

Chafee v. United States
12-223

Issue: Whether, after initiating a custody request for a state prisoner under the Interstate Agreement on Detainers Act, 18 U.S.C. app. 2, the federal government may nullify the state’s exercise of its statutory right to disallow that custody request by resort to a writ of habeas corpus ad prosequendum.

 
Pleau v. United States
12-230
Disclosure: Goldstein & Russell, P.C., whose attorneys work for or contribute to this blog in various capacities, serves as counsel to the petitioner in this case.

Issue: Whether, when the United States has invoked the Interstate Agreement on Detainers Act and seeks temporary custody of a state prisoner by means of a writ of habeas corpus ad prosequendum, the governor of the sending state – pursuant to the plain language of the Agreement – may disapprove that request.

Posted in Chafee v. U.S., Pleau v. U.S., Cases in the Pipeline

Recommended Citation: Ben Cheng, Petitions of the day, SCOTUSblog (Dec. 17, 2012, 11:01 PM), http://www.scotusblog.com/2012/12/petitions-of-the-day-14/