Does a court of appeal's rejection of an insufficiency of evidence claim under section 21 of the Civil Code of Civil Procedure apply to the federal courts?
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The following excerpt is from Grattan v. Sutton, Case No.: 3:17-cv-01523-GPC-PCL (S.D. Cal. 2018):
Therefore, the court of appeal's rejection of the insufficiency of the evidence claim was not contrary to, nor an objectively unreasonable application of, clearly established federal law. See Emery v. Clark, 643 F.3d 1210, 1213-14 (9th Cir. 2011) ("When we undertake collateral review of a state court decision rejecting a claim of insufficiency of
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