Potrero Hills Landfill, Inc. v. County of Solano

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that an employer who engaged in religious discrimination should not get injunctive relief enforcing the employee’s non-compete agreement because of violating Title VII
• listing “a wide range of civil contexts,” including nuisance abatement, in which abstention was “necessary to protect the state’s unique interest in exercising its basic executive functions”
• finding Younger inapplicable 7 because the county had not taken action to enforce the state law against the parties, 8 thus, the county had not taken an enforcement posture
• collecting cases finding significant state interests in municipal health, safety, and land use
• reviewing a decision to abstain under neither 12(b)(1) nor 12(b)(6)
• “absent extraordinary circumstances, a federal court 3 | may not interfere with a pending state criminal prosecution”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).