David Crawley Elwood H. Jones Larry Smith Frank Bracey, Plaintiffs v. Hamilton County Commissioners Sheriff Lincoln Stokes Warden William Whitworth

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• “[T]he state court … never assumed jurisdiction over any res or property. … This was strictly an in personam action. Moreover, the cases relied upon by the Court in Colorado River for the res exception all dealt with the disposition of property, such as a trust.”
• likening “parallelism” to the “availability of complete relief’

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