Trantham v. Isaacks

How courts have described this case

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• “Nor can a civil court issue a declaratory judgment to ‘render naked declarations of rights, status or other legal relationships arising under a penal statute.’”
• District court lacked civil jurisdiction to declare appellee’s guilt in connection with alleged violation of criminal statute; a “declaratory judgment . . . was an improper vehicle for determining Appellee’s potential . . . criminal liability.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).