Legal Opinion
Smith v. Bayer Corp.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 16, 2011No. 09-1205PublishedCited by 415 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Kagan
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In this case, a Federal District Court enjoined a state court from considering a plaintiff’s request to approve a class action. The District Court did so because it had earlier denied a motion to certify a class in a related case, brought by a different plaintiff against the same defendant alleging similar claims. The federal court thought its injunction appropriate to prevent relitigation of the issue it had decided.
We hold to the contrary. In issuing this order to a state court, the federal court exceeded its authority under the “relitigation exception” to the Anti-Injunction Act. That…
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