Legal Opinion
Tribune Company Tribune New York Holdings, Inc., Now Merged With Wpix Inc. v. Hamid Abiola
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided September 11, 1995No. 1915, Docket 95-7088PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOSÉ A CABRANES, Circuit Judge:
We are asked to decide whether a district court may abstain from exercising its jurisdiction pursuant to Burford v. Sun Oil Co., 319 U.S. 315, 63 S.Ct. 1098, 87 L.Ed. 1424 (1943), when a plaintiff asserts claims only for money damages.
The Tribune Company and its parent corporation, former owners of the New York Daily News, filed an action against numerous defendants: several hundred union workers at the News, three of their unions, the workers’ law firm, an individual lawyer, and a doctor who examined those workers — all of whom had purportedly engaged in a…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- Conley v. GibsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- Younger v. HarrisSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Burford v. Sun Oil Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1943
- New Orleans Public Service, Inc. v. Council of City of New OrleansSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
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3Cited by58 opinions
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