Benavidez v. Eu

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “Younger’s scope is closely circumscribed to parties actually involved in state litigation” and, therefore, Younger did not bar the suit of a plaintiff whose lawyer was involved as amicus in a state proceeding concerning similar claims
• “Younger abstention is not jurisdictional, but reflects a court’s prudential decision not to exercise jurisdiction which it in fact possesses.”
• guoting U.S. Steel Corp., 614 F.2d at 845

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).