Legal Opinion
Hill v. Courter
District Court, E.D. Virginia
Decided November 8, 2004No. 1:04CV1039PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
ELLIS, District Judge.
Plaintiffs produce goat cheese in their home for sale at a local farmer’s market. In this § 1983 1 suit, they seek to enjoin state agricultural inspections of their home goat cheese operation on Fourth Amendment grounds, while simultaneously asserting the same Fourth Amendment grounds as a defense to an ongoing state prosecution based on their refusal to permit such inspections. The threshold question, therefore, is whether Younger 2 abstention principles require abstention in favor of the state prosecution.
I. 3
Plaintiffs, Mary S. Vanderwoude Hill and…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- Younger v. HarrisSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Payton v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Camara v. Municipal Court of City and County of San FranciscoSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Middlesex County Ethics Committee v. Garden State Bar Ass'nSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
- Dombrowski v. PfisterSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
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3Cited by7 opinions
- Mary S. Vanderwoude Hill and James J. Hill v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Virginia · 2006
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