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Opinion
Filed
March 24, 2009
Case
Knowles v. Mirzayance
Case status
Decided

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Justice Thomas delivered the opinion of the Court. † A federal court may grant a habeas corpus application arising from a state-court adjudication on the merits if the state court’s decision “was contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly established Federal law, as determined by th…

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