abstention-doctrine
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6603 | David Martin v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2026-01-16 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | abstention-doctrine constitutional-rights due-process personal-jurisdiction section-1983 state-court | 1. Whether federal abstention doctrines bar § 1983 claims challenging a state court default judgment entered without constitutionally adequate notice … |
| 25-6073 | Brett Alan James Talmadge v. Superintendent, Goose Creek Correctional Center | Ninth Circuit | 2025-11-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abstention-doctrine court-appointed-counsel habeas-corpus incarceration pro-se-pleading speedy-trial | I. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the District Court for the District of Alaska's dismissal of Mr… |
| 25-245 | Fire-Dex, LLC v. Admiral Insurance Company | Sixth Circuit | 2025-09-03 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | abstention-doctrine coercive-relief declaratory-judgment diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts state-law | When a complaint joins claims for declaratory relief on a novel state-law issue with claims for damages, does a district court retain its discretion t… |
| 25-5316 | Feifei Gu v. Michael Sher, New York City Police Officer, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-08-11 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | abstention-doctrine civil-procedure constitutional-rights federal-intervention judicial-comity state-interests | In a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 setting, when a federal court is asked to stay the enforcement of a State Court's Order in a civil case initiated by private par… |
| 24-986 | Mendocino Railway, a California Corporation v. Kate Huckelbridge, Executive Director, California Coastal Commission, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-03-14 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | abstention-doctrine circuit-conflict federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion preemption-claims state-court-action | 1. Whether the Court should abrogate Colorado River's abstention doctrine. 2. Whether the Court alternatively should revisit Colorado River to cabin … |
| 22-987 | Polaris Industries Inc., et al. v. Jeremy Albright | Ninth Circuit | 2023-04-11 | Denied | abstention-doctrine cafa civil-procedure class-action-fairness-act equitable-jurisdiction federal-courts forum-shopping subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether CAFA's mandatory grant of subject matter jurisdiction and enumeration of limited equitable bases authorizing abstention require district court… | |
| 22-676 | Bonnie Carter v. Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-01-20 | Denied | abstention-doctrine civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process federal-claims federal-jurisdiction guardianship-proceeding standing state-agents younger-abstention | Whether the Younger abstention doctrine requires dismissal of constitutional and federal claims arising from false reports and other lies told by stat… | |
| 22-522 | Applied Underwriters, Inc., et al. v. Ricardo Lara, Commissioner, California Department of Insurance, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-12-05 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1983 abstention abstention-doctrine civil-rights constitutional-violations in-personam in-rem in-rem-jurisdiction prior-exclusive-jurisdiction section-1983 state-executive-officers | "[W]hen one court is exercising in rem jurisdiction over a res, a second court will not assume in rem jurisdiction over the same res." Marshall v. Mar… |
| 21-979 | Carla Young v. Brian Lundstrom, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-10 | Denied | Relisted (2) | abstention abstention-doctrine circuit-split federal-jurisdiction inextricably-intertwined injunctive-relief rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-judgment | In Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Saudi Basic Industries Corp., 544 U.S. 280 (2005), this Court recognized the departure lower courts had taken from this Court'… |
| 21-479 | Nicole K., by Next Friend Linda R., et al. v. Terry J. Stigdon, Director, Indiana Department of Child Services, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2021-09-30 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | abstention abstention-doctrine administrative-process circuit-court-ruling civil-procedure extraordinary-circumstances federal-court-discretion federalism judicial-proceeding procedural-jurisdiction | Whether a federal court "has discretion to put any federal proceeding on hold while a state works its way through an administrative process," as the S… |
| 21-17 | David Hargreaves v. Nuverra Environmental Solutions, Inc., aka Heckmann Corporation, aka Rough Rider Escrow, Inc., et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-07-08 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | abstention-doctrine article-three-jurisdiction bankruptcy bankruptcy-law case-jurisdiction equitable-mootness federal-courts judicial-abstention jurisdiction reorganization-plan | Several courts of appeals have adopted a new abstention doctrine—called "equitable mootness"—under which Article III courts decline to exercise jurisd… |
| 20-396 | Sheri Speer v. Michael Tieger, et al. | Second Circuit | 2020-09-25 | Denied | abstention abstention-doctrine abuse-of-process bankruptcy-code circuit-split civil-procedure involuntary-bankruptcy legal-precedent subject-matter-jurisdiction | Involuntary bankruptcies are rare - as they should be. They are a last resort after all state remedies have been exhausted, and are not a tool to be u… | |
| 19-1111 | Michael Anthony Deem v. Lorna DiMella-Deem, et al. | Second Circuit | 2020-03-10 | Denied | Response Waived | abstention-doctrine civil-procedure civil-rights domestic-relations-abstention due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-question-claims federalism judicial-immunity parental-rights standing | Petitioner, a fit parent that exceeded minimum standards of care for both of his children (then 11 and 12 years old), filed federal-question claims ag… |
| 18-6211 | Pedro Rodriguez v. San Diego County, California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-04 | Denied | IFP | abstention-doctrine bad-faith-prosecution civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-error due-process exhaustion-of-remedies extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus paredes-v-atherton perez-v-ledesma prosecutorial-bad-faith standing younger-abstention younger-v-harris | Whether the district court erred in failing to consider Petitioners claim under the Abstention Doctrine, YOUNGER V HARRIS 401 US 37 (1971), Prosecutio… |
| 18-5995 | Nathaniel R. Webb v. Donnie Harrison, Sheriff, Wake County, North Carolina, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2018-09-14 | Denied | IFP | abstention-doctrine circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-bail fourth-circuit habeas-corpus pretrial-detention speedy-trial younger-abstention | Is Younger v. Harris abstention appropriate when challenging the denial of Constitutional protections at prosecution; specifically when does prolonged… |