# In Re Lewis Williams, Jr.

> Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · January 12, 2004 · 359 F.3d 811

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9496771

## Case

- **Full name:** In Re Lewis WILLIAMS, Jr., Petitioner-Appellant
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- **Decided:** January 12, 2004
- **Citations:** 359 F.3d 811; 2004 WL 360431
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Clay
- **Judges:** Boggs, Clay, Kennedy, Suhrheinrich, Moore
- **Cited by:** 7 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- concluding that a § 1983 method-of-execution challenge should be construed as an motion for leave to file a successive habeas petition, which was denied

## Opinion text

CLAY, Circuit Judge,
dissenting in part.
I dissent from the panel’s denial of the motion to stay the execution and the grant of the motion to dismiss the appeal. My reasons for dissenting are set forth in my dissent to the panel’s prior order of January 13, 2004, in Case No. 04-3044, and in my dissent to the en banc Court’s order of January 30, 2004, in Case Nos. 04-3044/3066.

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