Sweeney v. Bartow

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that for claims other than speedy trial or double jeopardy, “[i]t makes no difference [whether] the petitioner has exhausted the state remedies that he could invoke” because Younger requires abstention.
• Younger applies even if person seeking injunction has pursued all state remedies to block proceeding
• federal courts should “abstain from interfering with pending state proceedings to enforce a state’s criminal laws”
• “The principles of Younger are applicable to habeas petitions from pending [Wisconsin] sexually violent person commitments.”
• federal courts should “abstain from interfering with pending state proceedings to enforce a state’s criminal laws”
• outlining limited habeas relief available to state pretrial detainees

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).