Esso Standard Oil Co. v. López-Freytes

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• allowing return to federal court after exhaustion of state remedies limited to causes of “structural bias;” bad faith; harassment or other extraordinary limited constitutional “core” matters
• characterizing the proposed fine as “unprecedented and extraordinarily large” and noting that the sum was twice the EQB’s annual operating budget and 5,000 times greater than the largest fine it had ever imposed
• Hearing Examiners working for the Puerto Rico Environmental Quality Board were independent contractors whose pay was “entirely dependent upon the discretionary assignment of cases from the” Environmental Quality Board
• Hearing Examiners working for the Puerto Rico Environmental Quality Board were independent contractors whose pay was “entirely dependent upon the discretionary assignment of cases from the” Environmental Quality Board
• “In the absence of extraordinary circumstances, interests of comity and the respect for state processes demand that federal courts should abstain from interfering with ongoing state judicial proceedings.”
• “In the absence of extraordinary circumstances, interests of comity and the respect for state processes demand that federal courts Count II alleges a violation of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (“RESPA”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).