Local Rule LR PL P 18: Separate Petitions are Required for Judgments Entered by Different Courts
N.D. W.Va. — Civil rule
LR PL P 18. Separate Petitions are Required for Judgments Entered by Different Courts.
A petition or motion filed pursuant to § 2241, 2254 or 2255 shall be limited to a challenge against one judgment, except that a claim may be asserted against more than one judgment if the trial or proceeding in which the judgments were entered were heard or tried in one court at the same time in consolidated proceedings. Prisoners seeking to challenge judgments entered by different courts or by the same court at a separate time must file separate petitions as to each court and judgment.