Fanaro v. Borough & Council of South Bound Brook

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that matters relating to domestic relations cases and child custody disputes implicate important state interests when abstaining under Younger from a constitutional challenge to state child support proceedings
• stating that “Younger established a near-absolute restraint rule when there are pending state criminal proceedings”
• reading O’Shea to require that federal courts exercise “near-absolute restraint” in “situations where the relief sought would interfere with the day-to-day conduct of state trials”
• abstaining under Younger from a constitutional challenge to state child support proceedings
• \We find O'Shea controlling. The relief which the plaintiffs seek in this case would necessarily require monitoring of the manner in which the state juvenile judges conducted contempt hearings in non-support cases.\
• “We find O’Shea controlling. The relief which the plaintiffs seek in this case would necessarily require monitoring of the manner in which the state juvenile judges conducted contempt hearings in non-support cases.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).