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Moore Vs. Sims
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- Jun 11, 1979
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U.S. 415 (1979) U.S. Supreme Court Moore v. SimsSearch
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U.S. 415 (1979) Moore v. SimsSearch
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court. Subsequently, this determination was made, the court concluding that abstention under the doctrine of Younger v. HarrisSearch
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District Court should not have exercised its jurisdiction, but should have abstained under the doctrine of Younger v. HarrisSearch
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to state criminal proceedings but also to civil proceedings in which important state interests are involved. Huffman v. PursueSearch
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counsel abstention when broad-based challenges are made to state statutes. First is the concern of Railroad Comm'n v. PullmanSearch
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Alabama State Federation of Labor v. McAdorySearch
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of the children, as they had already been placed in appellees' custody pursuant to federal court order. Gerstein v. PughSearch
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and is the subject of this appeal. After concluding that abstention under the doctrine of Younger v. HarrisSearch
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challenges. It surveyed virtually every aspect of Page 442 U. S. 423 child abuse proceedings in Texas. Sims v. StateSearch
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Appellants argue that the Federal District Court should have abstained in this case under the principles of Younger v. HarrisSearch
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in state judicial processes in the absence of great and immediate irreparable injury to the federal plaintiff. Samuels v. MackellSearch
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That policy was first articulated with reference to state criminal proceedings, but, as we recognized in Huffman v. PursueSearch
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of these conditions, or the presence of such other vital concerns as enforcement of contempt proceedings, Juidice v. VailSearch
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of equity, the exercise of equitable powers is inappropriate if there is an adequate remedy at law. See Douglas v. CitySearch
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Gibson v. BerryhillSearch
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integrated statutory framework. The earliest abstention cases were rooted in notions of equity. In Railroad Comm'n v. PullmanSearch
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of needless friction with state policies, whether the policy relates to the enforcement of the criminal law, Fenner v. BoykinSearch
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Spielman Motor Co. v. DodgeSearch
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or the administration of a specialized scheme for liquidating embarrassed business enterprises, Pennsylvania v. WilliamsSearch
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or the final authority of a state court to interpret doubtful regulatory laws of the state, Gilchrist v. InterboroughSearch
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thus essentially rendering the federal court decision advisory and the litigation underlying it meaningless. Watson v. BuckSearch
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and Alabama State Federation of Labor v. McAdorySearch
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Public Service Comm'n v. WycoffSearch
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Huffman v. PursueSearch
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themselves in such disputes, they prevent the informed evolution of state policy by state tribunals. Trainor v. HernandezSearch
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as a defense in the normal course of the pending judicial proceeding, abstention would be inappropriate. See Gerstein v. PughSearch
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the Younger doctrine on a number of occasions since Page 442 U. S. 432 Gerstein. In Juidice v. VailSearch
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U.S. at 313 U. S. 402 , quoted in Younger v. HarrisSearch
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Id. at 401 U. S. 53 . See Perez v. LedesmaSearch
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that might constitute great, immediate, and irreparable harm is that in Kugler v. HelfantSearch
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Id. at 421 U. S. 124 -125. See Trainor v. HernandezSearch
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Thus, Texas procedural law has long encouraged joinder of claims in civil actions. See, e.g., Texas Gauze Mills v. GoatleySearch
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Blair v. GaySearch
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and in suits affecting the parent-child relationship. Id. at 575. Therefore, this is not a case like Hernandez v. FinleySearch
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F.Supp. 516 (ND Ill.1978), summarily aff'd sub nom. Quern v. HernandezSearch
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U.S. 951 (1979), where the three-judge court found, after our remand in Trainor v. HernandezSearch
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litigation and lack of state court interpretation of an integrated statutory framework that this Court, in Trainor v. HernandezSearch
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of the Younger-Huffman line of cases is reiteration of a theme sounded and rejected in prior cases. See Trainor v. HernandezSearch
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there was an examination of this nature administered to the Sims children before or after the temporary removal. Sims v. StateSearch
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and the like. As we stated in Juidice v. VailSearch
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