Supreme Court· 12/10/2013

Sprint Communications, Inc. v. Jacobs

Citations

134 S. Ct. 584
187 L. Ed. 2d 505
2013 U.S. LEXIS 9019
2013 WL 6410850

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holding that whether a pending state court proceeding “provides an adequate opportunity to raise federal challenges” is a relevant “additional factor[] appropriately considered by the federal court before invoking YoungeN (brackets and citations omitted)
stating that Younger generally applies only when the state proceeding is “ ‘akin to a criminal prosecution’ in ‘important respects’ ”
noting that, after concluding a state proceeding is quasi-criminal, the three Middlesex conditions are “additional factors appropriately considered by the federal court before invoking Younger”
noting that the state court review of the state administrative proceeding was ongoing when the Eighth Circuit held abstention proper
assuming expressly, as a threshold matter, that the state proceeding was ongoing
fact that federal plaintiff also sought state court review of agency decision did not itself implicate Younger; proper focus was on the agency proceeding

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