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4 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 141 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Keeling v. Warden, Lebanon Correctional Inst..

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1 Keeling v. Warden, Lebanon Correctional Inst. Anchor
ca6 · 2012
green “keeling's pro se status and lack of knowledge of the law are not sufficient to constitute an extraordinary circumstance and excuse his late filing.” 67
2 Charmel Allen v. Joan N. Yukins, Warden
ca6 · 2004
green “gnorance of the law alone is not sufficient to warrant equitable tolling.” 58
3 Nelson Cobas v. Mary Burgess
ca6 · 2002
green “an inmate's lack of legal training, his poor education, or even his illiteracy does not give a court reason to toll the statute of limitations” 7

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