Legal Opinion
Harry Hamilton v. Nicole Bromley
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided July 10, 2017No. 15-3111PublishedCited by 118 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
FISHER, Circuit Judge.
It is a longstanding principle that the federal courts “have no more right to decline the exercise of jurisdiction which is given, than to usurp that which is not given.” Cohens v. Virginia, 19 U.S. (6 Wheat.) 264, 404, 5 L.Ed. 257 (1821). But in Younger v. Harris, 401 U.S. 37, 91 S.Ct. 746, 27 L.Ed.2d 669 (1971), the Supreme Court recognized “a far-from-novel exception to this general rule,” Sprint Commc’ns, Inc. v. Jacobs, — U.S.-, 134 S.Ct. 584, 591, 187 L.Ed.2d 505 (2013) (internal quotation marks omitted), which it expanded in subsequent…
2Cases cited29 opinions
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- Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- O'Shea v. LittletonSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
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3Cited by118 opinions
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