Phillips v. Rundle

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that States have a “special interest” in “enforcing the orders and judgments of [their] courts”
• citing, e.g., Middlesex Cty. Ethics Comm. v. Garden State Bar Ass’n, 457 U.S. 423, 432 (1982)
• explaining circumstances in which abstention is inappropriate even when the three Younger requirements are met
• “the burden ... rests on the federal plaintiff to show ‘that [Younger doesn’t apply because] state procedural law barred presentation of its claims’ ”
• “[t]he presence of two parallel law suits ... does not run afoul of Younger”
• burden is on federal plaintiff to establish bad faith

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).