WHIDDON

v.

UNITED STATES

Citator

Cited By

• Shaykh Matulu Abdurrahman v. Henderson, 897 F.2d 71 (2d Cir. 1990)
  …an attorney’s performance at trial, it is also applicable to claims directed to appellate representation. See Miller v. Keeney, 882 F. 2d 1428, 1433-34 (9th Cir.1989); cf. Cantone v. Superintendent, 759 F. 2d 207, 218 n. 19 (2d Cir.), cert. denied, 474 U.S. 835, 106 S.Ct. 109, 88 L.Ed.2d 89 (1985). Abdurrahman asserts that he did not receive adequate representation on his state appeal because his attorney raised only an excessive punishment claim and should have raised additional claims, including lack of…
• Galowski v. Murphy, 891 F.2d 629 (7th Cir. 1989)
  …te effort ‘to present the client’s case in accord with [her] professional evaluation.’ ” Cantone v. Superintendent, 759 F. 2d 207, 219 (2d Cir.) (quoting Jones v. Barnes, 463 U.S. 745, 751, 103 S.Ct. 3308, 3312, 77 L.Ed.2d 987 (1983)), cert. denied, 474 U.S. 835, 106 S.Ct. 109, 88 L.Ed.2d 89 (1985); see also Kubat v. Thieret, 867 F. 2d 351, 361 (7th Cir.) (“Given the difficulty of the decision, we cannot in hindsight say that counsel’s choice was professionally incompetent.”), cert. denied, — U.S. —, 110 S.…
• Breaux v. Diamond M Drilling Co., 850 F.2d 239 (5th Cir. 1988)
  …om our lexicon.5 Diamond M also raises a contention not affected by the Louisiana Supreme Court’s opinion in Murray. Diamond M asserts, on the basis of this Court’s decisions in Moses v. Marathon Oil Co., 749 F. 2d 262 (5th Cir.1985), cert. denied, 474 U.S. 835, 106 S.Ct. 109, 88 L.Ed.2d 89 (1985) and CNG Producing Co. v. Columbia Gulf Transmission Corporation, 709 F. 2d 959 (5th Cir.1983), that under the civilian duty/risk analysis,6 its purported fault was not a legal cause of the accident that injured B…