Yamaha Motor Corp. v. Patricia Stroud

How courts have described this case

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

• Holding that a stay rather than a dismissal is appropriate when “monetary damages are sought in addition to 'injunc-tive relief[.]”
• holding that where a plaintiff seeks damages, the federal matter should be stayed and not dismissed
• observing that Younger abstention does not prevent a court from exercising jurisdiction over claims for damages, except in certain circumstances
• “[T]he pending appeal in state court . . . is an ongoing state judicial proceeding.”
• “As long as there may be issues which will need to be determined in federal court, a stay rather than a dismissal is the preferred procedure to use in abstaining.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).