''Greene v. Fisher'', 565 U.S. 34 (2011), is a decision by the
Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over state court cases that involve a point o ...
involving the
Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA), which sets the
standard of review for ''
habeas corpus'' petitions brought in federal court to challenge state court convictions. AEDPA requires that to be set aside, the state court judgment must have been "contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly established Federal law as determined by the Supreme Court of the United States."
In a unanimous opinion delivered by Justice
Antonin Scalia
Antonin Gregory Scalia (; March 11, 1936 – February 13, 2016) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2016. He was described as the intellectu ...
, the Court ruled in ''Greene'' that "clearly established Federal law" under AEDPA does not include Supreme Court decisions that are announced after the last adjudication of the merits in state court but before the defendant's conviction becomes final.
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Brief for Petitioner
United States Supreme Court cases
United States Supreme Court cases of the Roberts Court
United States habeas corpus case law
2011 in United States case law
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