What is the test for establishing that a state is not a "final arbiter" of what is state law?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Johnson v. Pfeiffer, No. 2:17-cv-01635-JKS (E.D. Cal. 2019):
state is the final arbiter of what is state law. When it has spoken, its pronouncement is to be accepted by federal courts as defining state law . . . ."). "Federal courts hold no supervisory authority over state judicial proceedings and may intervene only to correct wrongs of constitutional dimension." Sanchez-Llamas v. Oregon, 548 U.S. 331, 345 (2006) (quoting Smith v. Philips, 455 U.S. 209, 221 (1982)) (internal quotation marks omitted).
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