For Your Eyes Alone, Inc. v. City of Columbus, Ga.

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that Younger did not apply when an individual’s arrest occurred after he initiated the federal action
• finding that Younger abstention was inappropriate where briefing had been submitted on motion to dismiss and district court had held thorough evidentiary hearing regarding plaintiffs’ motion for a temporary restraining order prior to when the plaintiff was arrested
• stating that abstention is justified where there had been a “lack of any hearings whatsoever ... combined with the stark fact that the states, having filed no pleadings, had not begun actively litigating the federal case at the time the prosecutions were initiated”
• “Our decision also is marked by concern over the costs of abstention in a suit where the plaintiff brings a facial or as-applied challenge to a state statute on First Amendment free speech grounds.”
• describing the case-specific circumstances that made abstention improper

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