comity-doctrine

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-313 Christine A. Arakelian v. City of Falls Church, Virginia, et al. Virginia 2024-09-19 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment comity-doctrine due-process jurisdictional-challenge section-1983 tax-injunction-act Whether the Supreme Court of Virginia erred in dismissing Petitioner's appeal for procedural reasons despite alleged constitutional due process violat…
22-1076 Online Merchants Guild v. Nicolas Maduros, Director, California Department of Tax and Free Administration Ninth Circuit 2023-05-05 Denied Response Waived cic-services-llc-v-internal-revenue-service comity-doctrine direct-marketing-association-v-brohl federal-jurisdiction information-demands online-merchants putative-taxpayer state-tax-demands tax-injunction-act third-party Whether the Tax Injunction Act applies differently based on whether the plaintiff is a putative taxpayer or a third-party
21-1076 Sivagnanam Thamilselvan v. Vijayalakshmi Thamilselvan Michigan 2022-02-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) comity comity-doctrine divorce first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise no-fault-divorce religious-freedom subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the petitioners' First and Fourteenth Amendment rights are violated
21-862 Samuel Hartman v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2021-12-10 Denied Response Waived §2254-litigation 28-usc-2254 circuit-split comity comity-doctrine deference federal-habeas procedural-default state-court-deference state-post-conviction Whether the majority of circuits are correct that comity prevents Federal courts in proceedings under 28 U.S.C. 2254 from overturning legal conclusion…
20-1168 Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services of Nevada, Inc., et al. v. Sharath Chandra, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights comity comity-doctrine due-process federal-courts judicial-discretion legal-procedure standing Younger-abstention Whether any standard should guide the courts of appeals' discretion to raise Younger abstention sua sponte
20-357 Fritz Kaegi v. A.F. Moore & Associates, Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-09-18 Denied Amici (1) comity comity-doctrine equal-protection federal-courts federal-jurisdiction property-tax state-courts state-jurisdiction tax-injunction-act Does the Seventh Circuit's opinion in A.F. Moore v. Pappas continue the movement to erode the Tax Injunction Act and undermine congressional intent?
20-316 Maria Pappas, Cook County Treasurer, et al. v. A.F. Moore & Associates, Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied Amici (1) civil-rights comity-doctrine due-process equal-protection real-estate real-estate-assessment tax-assessment tax-injunction-act tax-refund Whether the Equal Protection Clause mandates that a real estate taxpayer seeking a refund based on an over assessment of real property be able to chal…
18-1203 Courthouse News Service v. Dorothy Brown, Clerk, Circuit Court of Illinois, Cook County Seventh Circuit 2019-03-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) from hearing First-Amendment-access on the basis of general principles of comity and access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights comity comity-doctrine court-access federal-courts federalism first-amendment younger-abstention Whether Younger and its progeny permit federal courts to abstain from hearing First Amendment challenges seeking access to state court filings
18-903 Robbie Perry, et al. v. Coles County, Illinois Seventh Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 28-usc-2201 comity-doctrine declaratory-relief equal-protection equal-protection-clause equitable-jurisdiction property-tax property-tax-assessment state-court-remedies Did the Seventh Circuit err under the exception to the comity doctrine by holding Illinois state court remedies 'adequate' and 'complete' even though …