Walker v. Wegner

LARSON, Senior District Judge.

Defendants Helen Wegner and Mark Meierhenry appeal on behalf of the State of South Dakota from an order of the South Dakota District Court1, 477 F.Supp. 648, granting plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction and denying defendants’ motion to dismiss based on the abstention doctrine enunciated by the United States Supreme Court in Younger v. Harris, 401 U.S. 37, 91 S.Ct. 746, 27 L.Ed.2d 669 (1971). Plaintiffs-appellees are three individual members of the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity (Unification Church). The…