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· 12/8/2016

in the Interest of H.A.B. and J.B., Children

How courts have described this case

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

  • concluding that comity abstention was appropriate where the plaintiff sought relief that “directly affect[ed] the administration of the state courts and ‘would run contrary to the basic principles of equity, comity, and federalism’”
  • suggesting that “privacy concerns” weigh against “the interest in public disclosure” under Press-Enterprise II
  • explaining that the abstention doc- trines were “not a perfect fit, and we ultimately base our de- cision on the more general principles of federalism that un- derlie all of the abstention doctrines”
  • characterizing “a delay of no more than one business day in access to the vast majority of electronically filed complaints” as “minimal”
  • abstaining from enjoining the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County to release newly filed complaints at the moment of receipt
  • discussing abstention principles in circumstances where state judicial remedies are available but have not been invoked

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