Barzilay v. Barzilay

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• holding that Younger abstention does not apply in Hague cases, particularly when a Hague issue is raised in state court \only by way of support for [an] argument that the state court should not have ruled on the custody issue\
• noting that the petitioner “informed the state court that he intended to file a Hague 4 petition in federal district court to litigate the merits of the Hague issues in that forum”
• “Federal courts have a virtually unflagging obligation to exercise the jurisdiction given them.” (cleaned up) (quoting Colo. River Water Conservation Dist. v. United States, 424 U.S. 800, 817 (1976))
• addressing issues related to the Hague Convention on child abduction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).