Carey v. Sugar

How courts have described this case

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

• federal court should abstain from deciding constitutionality of a state statute while state court interpretations of the statute were evolving
• Pullman abstention ordered in case challenging, under the Fourteenth Amendment’s due process clause, state’s prejudgment attachment statute where state courts had demonstrated their inclination to impose a constitutionally permissible gloss on the questioned statute
• state officials urged narrowing construction of challenged statute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).