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Jun 11 1979 (FN)

Moore Vs. Sims

Court: US Supreme Court

Decided on: Jun-11-1979

..... court s reference to the litigation as being multifaceted as a reason for refusing abstention is unclear it appears that this reference meant either that the appellees constitutional challenge ..... court suggests that the more sweeping the challenge the more inappropriate is abstention and thereby inverts traditional abstention reasoning the breadth of a challenge to a complex state statutory scheme .....

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Jun 19 1989 (FN)

New Orleans Pub. Svc. Vs. City Council

Court: US Supreme Court

Decided on: Jun-19-1989

..... courts to refrain from enjoining pending state criminal prosecutions this court has expanded younger abstention beyond criminal proceedings and even beyond proceedings in courts but never to proceedings that ..... proceedings here are the sort to which younger applies rests upon the principle that abstention is not appropriate if the federal plaintiff will suffer irreparable injury absent equitable .....

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Jun 03 1996 (FN)

Quackenbush Vs. Allstate Ins. Co.

Court: US Supreme Court

Decided on: Jun-03-1996

..... federal courts not only have the power to stay the action based on abstention principles but can also in otherwise appropriate circumstances decline to exercise jurisdiction altogether ..... matter jurisdictional prerequisites nevertheless we have not previously addressed whether the principles underlying our abstention cases would support the remand or dismissal of a common law action for .....

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Dec 05 1967 (FN)

Zwickler Vs. Koota

Court: US Supreme Court

Decided on: Dec-05-1967

..... the absence of his request for injunctive relief and second if not whether abstention was nevertheless justified because appellant also sought an injunction against future criminal prosecutions ..... to suppose that a case involving allegations of overbreadth would inevitably be inappropriate for abstention the federal court might nonetheless reasonably consider that its exercise of jurisdiction would .....

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Jun 15 1992 (FN)

Ankenbrandt Vs. Richards

Court: US Supreme Court

Decided on: Jun-15-1992

..... speak in jurisdictional terms justice blackmun nevertheless would reinterpret them to support a special abstention doctrine for such cases see post at 713 716 opinion concurring in judgment ..... before the growth and general acceptance in recent decades of modern doctrines of federal abstention that distinguish the refusal to exercise jurisdiction from disclaiming jurisdiction altogether see generally .....

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Jun 15 1987 (FN)

City of Houston Vs. Hill

Court: US Supreme Court

Decided on: Jun-15-1987

..... at which the city of houston raised this issue weighs heavily against abstention houston first suggested that abstention was appropriate after the court of appeals published its panel opinion invalidating ..... 2 2 this case demonstrates two advantages of certification over the more traditional pullman abstention procedure first certification saves time by sending the question directly to the court that .....

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May 31 1977 (FN)

Trainor Vs. Hernandez

Court: US Supreme Court

Decided on: May-31-1977

..... paramount state interests juidice supra at 430 u s 345 brennan j dissenting but abstention principles developed to avoid interfering with state criminal prosecutions are manifestly inapplicable here in ..... protection than the state tax collector nevertheless the court is now fashioning a nonstatutory abstention doctrine which requires even greater deference to the state as an ordinary litigant than .....

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Apr 06 1987 (FN)

Pennzoil Vs. Texaco, Inc.

Court: US Supreme Court

Decided on: Apr-06-1987

..... constitutional questions texaco raises in this case footnote 11 as we have noted younger abstention in situations like this offers the opportunity for narrowing constructions that might obviate the ..... younger doctrine to an unprecedented extent and would effectively allow the invocation of younger abstention whenever any state proceeding is ongoing no matter how attenuated the state s interests .....

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May 31 1977 (FN)

Ohio Bureau of Employment Svcs. Vs. Hodory

Court: US Supreme Court

Decided on: May-31-1977

..... process and equal protection clauses of the fourteenth amendment the case also raises questions concerning abstention i in november 1974 plaintiff appellee leonard paul hodory was employed as a millwright ..... case ohio either believes that the district court was correct in its analysis of abstention or faced with the prospect of lengthy administrative appeals followed by equally protracted state .....

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Jun 21 1982 (FN)

Middlesex County Ethics Comm. Vs. Bar Assn.

Court: US Supreme Court

Decided on: Jun-21-1982

..... court interference with pending state judicial proceedings absent extraordinary circumstances the policies underlying younger abstention have been frequently reiterated by this court the notion of comity includes a ..... are whether important state interests are implicated so as to warrant federal court abstention and whether the federal plaintiff has an adequate opportunity to present the federal .....

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