exhaustion of state remedies
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Black's law dictionary.
HENRY CAMPBELL BLACK, M. A..
1990.
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exhaustion of state remedies — Federal courts require that state remedies be exhausted in certain classes of cases in order to give state courts as a matter of comity the opportunity to make the initial determination as to all claims, federal or state, raised in those cases. U … Black's law dictionary
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Exhaustion of remedies — The doctrine of exhaustion of remedies prevents a litigant from seeking a remedy in a new court or jurisdiction until all claims or remedies have been exhausted (pursued as fully as possible) in the original one. The doctrine was originally… … Wikipedia
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habeas corpus — habeas cor·pus / kȯr pəs, ˌpu̇s/ n [Medieval Latin, literally, you should have the body (the opening words of the writ)]: any of several writs originating at common law that are issued to bring a party before the court; esp: habeas corpus ad… … Law dictionary
procedural default — n: a failure to follow state appellate procedure (as in the exhaustion of state remedies) that bars federal esp. habeas corpus review of a case in the absence of a showing of cause for and prejudice from the failure or sometimes in the absence of … Law dictionary
