Benjamin Burris v. Donna Cobb

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• asking whether state law is “susceptible to an interpretation that would avoid any federal constitutional question”
• “Pullman requires a federal court to refrain from exercising jurisdiction when the case involves a potentially controlling issue of state law that is 4 If Rule 19(a
• “The district court . . . did not address any of [defendants’ alternative] contentions, and we believe that the alternative arguments for dismissal, and the responses thereto, are best considered by the district court in the first instance.”

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