Chico Service Station, Inc. v. Sol Puerto Rico Ltd.

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• ruling that state court review was not timely because site cleanup had been under consideration by Puerto Rico’s Environmental Quality Board for seventeen years but the Board had issued no final order appealable to the commonwealth courts during that time
• stating that an “untimely petition must be treated as improperly 1 filed, or as though it never existed, for purposes of section 2244(d)”
• vacating a district court Burford abstention order, in part because the required decades-long state administrative process rendered state- adjudication untimely
• noting abstention’s “uneasy position in the jurisprudence of federal court jurisdiction”
• explaining “[a]bstention is, at its core, a prudential mechanism that allows federal courts to take note of and weigh significant and potentially conflicting interests that were not—or could not have been—foreseen by Congress at the time that it granted jurisdiction”

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