Wanda Epps v. Lauderdale County

How courts have described this case

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

• excluding costs of meals during trial “as meals are normal expenses of everyday life”
• refusing to abstain and noting that § 1983’s “import weighs against abstention on the grounds of judicial economy where Congress created a cause of action for the sole purpose of vindicating federal civil rights”
• “If a factor is inapposite, then it weighs against abstention.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).