Supreme Court· 5/31/1977

Trainor v. Hernandez

Citations

431 U.S. 434
97 S. Ct. 1911
52 L. Ed. 2d 486
1977 U.S. LEXIS 96

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holding that district court erred in enjoining civil enforcement action brought by state to retrieve welfare payments
concluding that the principle of comity required the district court to refrain from interfering with a state’s civil enforcement action
holding that “the principles of Younger ... are broad enough to apply to interference by a federal court with an ongoing civil enforcement action ... brought by the State in its sovereign capacity.”
explaining that these circumstances can justify injunctive relief even in a context when a federal court should ordinarily abstain
identifying duplica-tive litigation and lack of state-court interpretation of statutory framework as central concerns underlying Younger
emphasizing that the state brought suit in its sovereign capacity

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Judges: Blackmun, Brennan, Marshall, Stevens, Stewart, White

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