Loretta Capeheart v. Melvin Terrell

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• concluding that claim seeking injunctive relief was not ripe for review because the possibility of harm was too remote and speculative
• noting that a district court's decision to relinquish supplemental jurisdiction will be reversed only in extraordinary circumstances
• noting that a district court’s decision to relinquish sup‐ plemental jurisdiction will be reversed only in extraordinary circumstances
• finding prior retaliatory actions did not support plaintiff’s claim of vagueness where the prior actions emerged from discretionary actions taken by defendants
• explaining that issues resting on the enactment of proposed polices are rarely ripe because a “proposed policy may never come into force and, even if it does, it could well change during the process that takes it from a possible rule to an actual one”
• critical question for ripeness concerns is whether the claim involves uncertain events “that may not occur as anticipated, or [may] not occur at all”

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