Stines v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions

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1. “We need not decide whether a district court may ever grant a default judgment in a habeas corpus proceeding if there is a serious delay, because the delay in this case was minor. The Government filed a response by the original hearing date and only three weeks after it was due. The hearing itself took place as scheduled. Nothing in this record suggests that the U.S. Attorney’s office had displayed a pattern of delay. Its failure was apparently an isolated and inadvertent mistake. The court was not placed in the position of either delaying the proceedings or making a decision without benefit of Government briefing. See Ruiz, 660 F.2d 337 (no default where state responsible only for five-day delay); cf. Aziz, 830 F.2d 184 (state nei ther filed response nor appeared); Bermu-dez, 733 F.2d 18 (no response by state after four months, and pattern of delay); Scott, 507 F.2d 919 (eighty-six day delay).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Sparrow v. United States