_The 6th U . S . Circuit Court of Appeals, in Cincinnati, said that federal law barred claims ! gainst a " utilization review " company that refused to approve psychiatric care for a man who later committed suicide.
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Without any new evidence of innocence, even the existence of a concededly meritorious constitutional violation is not in itself sufficient to establish a miscarriage of justice that would allow a habeas court to reach the merits of a barred claim.
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The first is that a habeas court may not reach the merits of a barred claim unless actual innocence is shown; this was the actual judgment of the opinion ( one cannot say the holding, since the opinion was a mere plurality ).