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Supreme Court· 5/12/1975

Huffman v. Pursue, Ltd.

Citations

  • 420 U.S. 592
  • 95 S. Ct. 1200
  • 43 L. Ed. 2d 482
  • 1975 U.S. LEXIS 46

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that federal courts cannot intervene in state proceedings if the party seeking intervention has “not exhausted [their] state appellate remedies.”
  • holding that Younger abstention is warranted when a civil enforcement action that is “akin to a criminal prosecution” is pending in state court
  • holding that state proceedings were ongoing where the plaintiff, after losing in state court, filed an action in federal court instead of seeking review in state appellate court
  • holding that state court proceedings are “pending” within the meaning of Younger not only while they are before state trial courts, but also over the course of direct review within the state court system
  • holding that “a necessary concomitant of Younger is that a party ... must exhaust his state appellate remedies before seeking relief in the District Court” and noting that according such deference to already-initiated state proceedings is consistent with a general no-exhaustion doctrine
  • holding that \a necessary concomitant of Younger is that a party ... must exhaust his state appellate remedies before seeking relief in the District Court\ and noting that according such deference to already-initiated state proceedings is consistent with a general no-exhaustion doctrine

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Judges: Brennan, Douglas, Marshall, Rehnquist

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