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Ankenbrandt Vs. Richards

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 15, 1992

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  1. Simms Vs. Simms US Supreme Court · Nov 20, 1899
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  2. Cary Vs. Curtis US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1845
  3. Plaquemines Tropical Fruit Co. Vs. Henderson US Supreme Court · May 02, 1898
  4. Lockerty Vs. Phillips US Supreme Court · May 10, 1943
  5. Bennett Vs. Bennett US Supreme Court · Feb 24, 1908
  6. Flood Vs. Kuhn US Supreme Court · Jun 19, 1972
  7. U.S. 689 (1992) October Term, 1991 Syllabus Ankenbrandt, as Next Friend and Mother of L. R., Et Al. V. Richards
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  8. jurisdiction and that its decision to dismiss was justified under the abstention principles announced in Younger v. Harris
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  9. jurisdiction exists as a matter of statutory construction. Pp. 693-701. (a) The exception stems from Barber v. Barber
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  10. Similarly, while it is not inconceivable that in certain circumstances the abstention principles developed in Burford v. Sun
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  11. and that it lacked jurisdiction over the case. The court also invoked the abstention principles announced in Younger v. Harris
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  12. relations exception to tort suits brought in federal court pursuant to diversity jurisdiction. See, e. g., Bennett v. Bennett
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  13. Cole v. Cole
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  14. Drewes v. Ilnicki
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  15. Lloyd v. Loeffler
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  16. McIntyre v. McIntyre
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  17. Ingram v. Hayes
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  18. by the lower federal courts. The seeming authority for doing so originally stemmed from the announcement in Barber v. Barber
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  19. prohibited federal courts from exercising jurisdiction over domestic relations cases. Brief for Appellant in Barber v. Barber
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  20. such power on narrower statutory, rather than broader constitutional, grounds. Cf. Edward J. DeBartolo Corp. v. Florida
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  21. original jurisdiction by federal courts in the District of Columbia to decide divorce actions, see, e. g., Glidden Co. v. Zdanok
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  22. the Court itself would have lacked jurisdiction over appeals from these legislative courts. See National Mut. Ins. Co. v. Tidewater
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  23. Palmore v. United
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  24. States, 411 U. S. 389 , 401 (1973). 3We read Ohio ex rel. Popovici v. Agler
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  25. How. 236, 245. See Sheldon v. Sill
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  26. Kline v. Burke
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  27. chancery practice, some guide to the meaning of the 1789 Act's jurisdictional grant. See, e. g., Robinson v. Campbell
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  28. As the court in Phillips, Nizer, Benjamin, Krim & Ballon v. Rosenstiel
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  29. Patterson v. McLean
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  30. Fourco Glass Co. v. Transmirra
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  31. see also Finley v. United
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  32. when it reenacted the diversity statute. Loril lard v. Pons
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  33. at 708-709 (opinion concurring in judgment). We see nothing remarkable in this decision. See, e. g., Flood v. Kuhn
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  34. See also Simms v. Simms
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  35. courts to apply with equal vigor in suits brought pursuant to diversity jurisdiction. See, e. g., Bennett v. Bennett
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  36. Solomon v. Solomon
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  37. Hernstadt v. Hernstadt
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  38. exception as narrowly confined to suits for divorce, alimony, or child custody decrees. See, e. g., McIntyre v. McIntyre
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  39. tribunals over the past century and a half in handling issues that arise in the granting of such decrees. See Lloyd v. Loeffler
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  40. App. to Pet. for Cert. A-6 (quoting Zaubi v. Hoejme
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  41. Colorado River Water Conservation Dist. v. United
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  42. Id., at 817. The courts below cited Younger v. Harris
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  43. Though we have extended Younger abstention to the civil context, see, e. g., Middlesex County Ethics Comm. v. Garden
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  44. Ohio Civil Rights Comm'n v. Dayton
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  45. Pennzoil Co. v. Texaco
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  46. It is not inconceivable, however, that in certain circumstances, the abstention principles developed in Burford v. Sun
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  47. based on the domestic relations exception to diversity jurisdiction and to abstain under the doctrine of Younger v. Harris
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  48. in existence for 82 years prior to the announcement of the first abstention doctrine in Railroad Comm'n of Texas v. Pullman
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  49. See, e. g., Consumer Product Safety Comm'n v. GTE
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  50. Syllabus Ankenbrandt, as Next Friend and Mother of L. R., Et Al. V. Richards
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