DuVall v. County of Ontario

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How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that principles of comity and federalism counsel against issuing injunctions against state law enforcement authorities absent showing of substantial and immediate irreparable injury
• holding that plaintiff injured by chokehold lacked standing to sue for injunction on use of chokeholds by police
• holding that a \ substantial and immediate irreparable injury\ is a precondition to invoking the exceptional circumstances exception to Younger abstention
• holding that the threat must be “ ‘real and immediate’ ” as opposed to “ ‘conjectural’ or ‘hypothetical’ ”
• holding that a “substantial and immediate irreparable injury” is a precondition to invoking the exceptional circumstances exception to Younger abstention
• holding that the capable of repetition doctrine only applies in those exceptional circumstances where a plaintiff can reasonably show that he may again be subject to the alleged illegality.

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