Tony Alamo Christian Ministries v. Selig

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that under the Younger doctrine, “principles of comity and federalism” require that “federal courts should abstain from exercising their jurisdiction if (1) there is an ongoing state proceeding, (2) that implicates important state interests, and (3
• dismissing as implausible allegations that “Defendants conducted the investigation and seized the children in ‘bad faith,’ that is, in order to harass and intimidate”
• discussing the “limitations on the application of Younger abstention to federal plaintiffs who were not state-court parties”
• “For purposes of applying Younger abstention, the relevant time.for determining if there are ongoing state proceedings is when the federal complaint is filed.”
• “For purposes of applying Younger abstention, the relevant time for determining if there are ongoing state proceedings is when the federal complaint is filed.”
• “For purposes of applying Younger abstention, the relevant time for determining if there are ongoing state proceedings is when the federal complaint is filed.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).