Nekia Roberson v. Susan Doherty and Jack Tesmer

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 must abstain from exercising jurisdiction when doing so would interfere with pending state court proceedings
• recognizing that when the state proceeding is criminal in nature, the policy against federal interference is “particularly” strong
• recognizing that federal courts should not interfere 24 with criminal prosecutions as they are quintessential state functions
• recognizing that when the state proceeding is criminal in nature, the policy against federal interference is “particularly” strong
• recognizing that when the state proceeding is criminal in nature, the policy against federal interference is “particularly” strong
• recognizing that when the state proceeding is criminal in nature, the policy against federal interference is “particularly” strong

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).