Legal Opinion
The Ivy Club v. W. Cary Edwards Pamela S. Poff, Sally Frank, Intervenor-Defendant. Sally Frank, Counter-Claimant v. The Ivy Club, Counter-Defendant
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided September 16, 1991No. 90-6027PublishedCited by 65 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
ROSENN, Circuit Judge.
This appeal, the procedural posture of which has all of the trappings of a law school examination question, requires us to explore the boundaries of the several theories under which the federal courts abstain from exercising their jurisdiction in deference to comity with the state courts. Specifically, the question presented is whether a party, who files a claim in federal court following a state administrative agency’s determination that the federal constitution does not preclude the agency’s exercise of jurisdiction, may return to federal court to…
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