United States v. Michigan

OPINION

FOX, Senior District Judge.

Once again this court is faced with the problem of whether a federal court can enjoin actions of a state court judge. This is an area of the law that a federal judge enters with great reluctance, but one which he must enter if he is to be true to his constitutional obligations. Justice Black in describing the traditional equitable reluctance to interfere with criminal prosecutions stated that comity represents “a system in which there is sensitivity to the legitimate interests of both State and National Government, and in which the National Government,…