U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Thursday that federal judges cannot point to a longstanding legal doctrine to abstain from deciding questions that arise out of certain state probate proceedings.
The ruling, from a unanimous panel of the Manhattan-based appeals court, enforced the narrow scope of the Younger abstention doctrine, a limited carve-out to the general rule that federal courts must hear cases within their jurisdiction.
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