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Moore Vs. Sims

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 11, 1979

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  1. Trainor Vs. Hernandez US Supreme Court · May 31, 1977
  2. Juidice Vs. Vail US Supreme Court · Mar 22, 1977
  3. GersteIn Vs. Pugh US Supreme Court · Feb 18, 1975
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  4. Watson Vs. Buck US Supreme Court · May 26, 1941
  5. Mitchum Vs. Foster US Supreme Court · Jun 19, 1972
  6. Samuels Vs. Mackell US Supreme Court · Feb 23, 1971
  7. Gibson Vs. Berryhill US Supreme Court · May 07, 1973
  8. Fenner Vs. Boykin US Supreme Court · May 24, 1926
  9. Kugler Vs. Helfant US Supreme Court · Apr 28, 1975
  10. U.S. 415 (1979) U.S. Supreme Court Moore v. Sims
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  11. U.S. 415 (1979) Moore v. Sims
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  12. court. Subsequently, this determination was made, the court concluding that abstention under the doctrine of Younger v. Harris
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  13. District Court should not have exercised its jurisdiction, but should have abstained under the doctrine of Younger v. Harris
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  14. to state criminal proceedings but also to civil proceedings in which important state interests are involved. Huffman v. Pursue
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  15. counsel abstention when broad-based challenges are made to state statutes. First is the concern of Railroad Comm'n v. Pullman
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  16. Alabama State Federation of Labor v. McAdory
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  17. of the children, as they had already been placed in appellees' custody pursuant to federal court order. Gerstein v. Pugh
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  18. and is the subject of this appeal. After concluding that abstention under the doctrine of Younger v. Harris
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  19. challenges. It surveyed virtually every aspect of Page 442 U. S. 423 child abuse proceedings in Texas. Sims v. State
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  20. Appellants argue that the Federal District Court should have abstained in this case under the principles of Younger v. Harris
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  21. in state judicial processes in the absence of great and immediate irreparable injury to the federal plaintiff. Samuels v. Mackell
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  22. That policy was first articulated with reference to state criminal proceedings, but, as we recognized in Huffman v. Pursue
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  23. of these conditions, or the presence of such other vital concerns as enforcement of contempt proceedings, Juidice v. Vail
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  24. of equity, the exercise of equitable powers is inappropriate if there is an adequate remedy at law. See Douglas v. City
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  25. Gibson v. Berryhill
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  26. integrated statutory framework. The earliest abstention cases were rooted in notions of equity. In Railroad Comm'n v. Pullman
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  27. of needless friction with state policies, whether the policy relates to the enforcement of the criminal law, Fenner v. Boykin
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  28. Spielman Motor Co. v. Dodge
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  29. or the administration of a specialized scheme for liquidating embarrassed business enterprises, Pennsylvania v. Williams
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  30. or the final authority of a state court to interpret doubtful regulatory laws of the state, Gilchrist v. Interborough
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  31. thus essentially rendering the federal court decision advisory and the litigation underlying it meaningless. Watson v. Buck
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  32. and Alabama State Federation of Labor v. McAdory
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  33. Public Service Comm'n v. Wycoff
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  34. Huffman v. Pursue
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  35. themselves in such disputes, they prevent the informed evolution of state policy by state tribunals. Trainor v. Hernandez
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  36. as a defense in the normal course of the pending judicial proceeding, abstention would be inappropriate. See Gerstein v. Pugh
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  37. the Younger doctrine on a number of occasions since Page 442 U. S. 432 Gerstein. In Juidice v. Vail
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  38. U.S. at 313 U. S. 402 , quoted in Younger v. Harris
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  39. Id. at 401 U. S. 53 . See Perez v. Ledesma
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  40. that might constitute great, immediate, and irreparable harm is that in Kugler v. Helfant
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  41. Id. at 421 U. S. 124 -125. See Trainor v. Hernandez
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  42. Thus, Texas procedural law has long encouraged joinder of claims in civil actions. See, e.g., Texas Gauze Mills v. Goatley
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  43. Blair v. Gay
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  44. and in suits affecting the parent-child relationship. Id. at 575. Therefore, this is not a case like Hernandez v. Finley
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  45. F.Supp. 516 (ND Ill.1978), summarily aff'd sub nom. Quern v. Hernandez
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  46. U.S. 951 (1979), where the three-judge court found, after our remand in Trainor v. Hernandez
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  47. litigation and lack of state court interpretation of an integrated statutory framework that this Court, in Trainor v. Hernandez
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  48. of the Younger-Huffman line of cases is reiteration of a theme sounded and rejected in prior cases. See Trainor v. Hernandez
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  49. there was an examination of this nature administered to the Sims children before or after the temporary removal. Sims v. State
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  50. and the like. As we stated in Juidice v. Vail
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