· 11/9/1988
Walter Harvey Ballard, Jr. v. Honorable Fad Wilson, Judge, Municipal Court Number Three and City of Houston, Texas, a Municipal Corporation
Citations
- 856 F.2d 1568
How courts have described this case
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- holding that Younger precluded consideration of claims for injunctive and declaratory relief while state criminal prosecutions were pending against Ballard on his thirty-six violations of the City of Houston's overtime parking ordinance
- “[A] federal district court has no discretion to dismiss cognizable claims for monetary relief which cannot be redressed in a pending state proceeding.”
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Judges: Gee, Williams, Higginbotham
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