Legal Opinion
New Orleans Public Service, Inc. v. The Council of the City of New Orleans
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 28, 1988No. 88-3194PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:
In 1986 this court decided that a federal district court had not abused its discretion in abstaining from deciding federal issues presented in suit to enjoin a state agency’s proceeding to fix the retail rates that might be charged by a public utility. Bound by this decision, we hold again that the same district court did not abuse its discretion in failing to take jurisdiction over issues of federal law at a later stage of the same proceeding.
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This is the fourth federal court battle in a legal war that began almost a decade ago. New Orleans Public Service, Inc.…
2Cases cited16 opinions
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- Burford v. Sun Oil Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1943
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