Wendy Downs v. Jeff Macomber, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al.
1. Was the Ninth Circuit too demanding under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) in assessing the district court's disposition of the habeas petition?
(a) Whether reasonable jurists could debate whether the petition for a writ of habeas corpus was timely under 28 U.S.C. §2244(d).
(b) Whether reasonable jurists could debate whether the petition for a writ of habeas corpus states a valid claim of the denial of at least one constitutional right.
2. Whether the petition for a writ of habeas corpus should be granted.
Whether the Ninth Circuit applied an overly stringent standard in assessing the district court's disposition of a habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)