Askew v. Hargrave

How courts have described this case

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• holding that abstention may be called for when a state-court case brings state-law “claims, [which,] if sustained, will obviate the necessity of determining the [constitutional] question”
• distinguishing McNeese v. Board of Education, 373 U.S. 668, 83 S.Ct. 1433, 10 L.Ed.2d 622 (1963)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).