The Supreme Court has granted certiorari in Holland v. Florida on the question of tolling the statute of limitations for habeas petitions. Despite the name, this is a federal habeas petition from the Eleventh Circuit. (The respondent is supposed to be a corrections official. The State has Eleventh Amendment immunity.) The Eleventh Circuit's decision is here.

The district court dismissed the petition as untimely because it was filed beyond the one-year limitations period provided by 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1). On appeal, Petitioner argues that he was entitled to equitable tolling of the limitations period for filing his federal habeas petition because of egregious conduct by his counsel during his post-conviction proceedings. Seeing no reversible error, we affirm the district court's dismissal of Petitioner's petition.

I will be traveling today and not able to blog further on this case or the Spisak argument until much later.