What is the Dixon Bar and what are the exceptions to the Dixon bar?

MultiRegion, United States of America

The following excerpt is from Brown v. Yates, No. : 1:10-cv-00219-LJO-DLB (HC) (E.D. Cal. 2011):

4. The four exceptions to the Dixon bar are: (1) "'fundamental constitutional error, '" (2) a lack of "fundamental jurisdiction'" by the trial court over the petitioner, (3) the trial court's "'acting in excess of jurisdiction'" and (4) an intervening "'change in the law.'" Park v. California, 202 F.3d 1146, 1152 (9th Cir. 2000) (citing Fields v. Calderon, 125 F.3d 757, 763 (9th Cir. 1997) (quoting In re Harris, 21 Cal.Rptr.2d 373.)

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