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Steffel Vs. Thompson

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Mar 19, 1974

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  12. U.S. 452 (1974) U.S. Supreme Court Steffel v. Thompson
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  13. U.S. 452 (1974) Steffel v. Thompson
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  14. The Court of Appeals affirmed, being of the view that Younger v. Harris
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  15. and that it followed from the reasoning of Samuels v. Mackell
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  16. pending at the time the federal complaint is filed, considerations of equity, comity, and federalism on which Younger v. Harris
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  17. and Samuels v. Mackell
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  18. whether the attack is made on the constitutionality of a state criminal statute on its face or as applied. Cameron v. Johnson
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  19. state criminal statute is pending against a federal plaintiff at the time his federal complaint is filed, Younger v. Harris
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  20. U. S. 37 (1971), and Samuels v. Mackell
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  21. judgment upon the constitutionality of the statute. This case presents the important question reserved in Samuels v. Mackell
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  22. Becker v. Thompson
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  23. F.2d 919 (1972). The court recognized that the holdings of Younger v. Harris
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  24. situations where state prosecutions were pending when the federal action commenced, but was of the view that Younger v. Harris
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  25. and, furthermore, since the opinion in Samuels v. Mackell
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  26. Page 415 U. S. 459 Unlike three of the appellees in Younger v. Harris
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  27. be entitled to challenge a statute that he claims deters the exercise of his constitutional right. See, e.g., Epperson v. Arkansas
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  28. provisions of state law which have provided the basis for threats of criminal prosecution against him. Cf. Boyle v. Landry
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  29. In Golden v. Zwickler
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  30. Maryland Casualty Co. v. Pacific
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  31. Zwickler v. Koota
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  32. relief inappropriate. Sensitive to principles of equity, comity, and federalism, we recognized in Younger v. Harris
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  33. U. S. 624 , 111 U. S. 637 (1884). In Samuels v. Mackell
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  34. id. at 401 U. S. 57 (BRENNAN, WHITE, and MARSHALL, JJ., concurring). Similarly, in Samuels v. Mackell
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  35. to be constitutionally protected activity in order to avoid becoming enmeshed in a criminal proceeding. Cf. Dombrowski v. Pfister
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  36. irreparable injury -- a traditional prerequisite to Page 415 U. S. 463 injunctive relief, e.g., Dombrowski v. Pfister
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  37. Goldstein v. Cox
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  38. the traditional prerequisites to equitable relief -- most importantly, irreparable injury. See, e.g., Fenner v. Boykin
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  39. relief would be unavailable is amply evidenced by the legislative history of the Act, traced in full detail in Perez v. Ledesma
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  40. Moreover, the Senate report's clear implication that declaratory relief would have been appropriate in Pierce v. Society
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  41. of Sisters, 268 U. S. 510 (1925), and Village of Euclid v. Ambler
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  42. of the constitutionality of a state statute carrying criminal penalties, and the report's quotation from Terrace v. Thompson
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  43. It was this history that formed the backdrop to our decision in Zwickler v. Koota
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  44. noted that injunctive relief might well be unavailable under principles of equity jurisprudence canvassed in Douglas v. City
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  45. U.S. at 389 U. S. 254 . Only one year ago, we Page 415 U. S. 469 reaffirmed the Zwickler v. Koota
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  46. holding in Roe v. Wade
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  47. U. S. 113 (1973), and Doe v. Bolton
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  48. a federal court's decision as to declaratory relief, on the one hand, and injunctive relief, on the other. Zwickler v. Koota
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  49. supra, at 410 U. S. 166 (emphasis added). See Doe v. Bolton
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  50. judgment will have a less intrusive effect on the administration of state criminal laws. As was observed in Perez v. Ledesma
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