Board of County Commissioners v. Hayden

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• holding that intervening developments rendered abstention appropriate while also acknowledging that the district court’s decision not to abstain was not erroneous
• “If on its face the statute warned too broadly, deference to the state courts would be inappropriate.”
• “Section 43.21(a)(1) defines obscenity with language drawn directly from the Supreme Court’s landmark Miller decision.”
• “[I]n view of the high cost of abstention in the context of suits seeking review of statutes exerting a purported chilling effect on First Amendment rights, . . . we cannot say that [the] district court abused its discretion in declining to invoke Pullman abstention.”

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