Bobby R. Tyler v. David Collins, Norman Quincy Wright v. David Collins

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding, after finding Pullman abstention applied, that “the District Court should not dismiss these cases, but should stay the federal proceedings and retain jurisdiction over them”
• “Abstention is particularly warranted where a state proceeding is pending that challenges the law under the state constitution.”
• “The meaning of the phrase ‘previously ascertained and declared by law’ is central to this case and has not been authoritatively construed by the state's highest court.”
• Pullman abstention requires “an unclear state law . . . and the likelihood that a decision on the state constitutional issue would obviate our deciding the federal question”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).