Jeffrey R. Minot, and Jeffrey R. Minot, as the Parent and Custodian of Stephen Rafael Minot v. Astrid Eckardt-Minot

JON 0. NEWMAN, Chief Judge:

This appeal concerns the propriety of abstention in the context of a diversity tort suit implicating state domestic relations law. This issue arises on the appeal of defendant-appellant Astrid Eckardt-Minot from the April 19, 1993, judgment of the District Court for the Southern District of New York (Michael B. Mukasey, Judge) remanding the removed action of plaintiff-appellee Jeffrey Minot to New York State Supreme Court. Though we are somewhat troubled by an abstention-based remand in this context, we conclude that the District Court exercised its discretion…