federal-abstention

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-765 Robert R. Turner v. Sharon W. Jordan, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-01-17 Denied circuit-split comity-principles constitutional-takings federal-abstention property-rights tax-foreclosure Whether federal courts must abstain from constitutional takings cases that seek to recover only the surplus value of a property that was taken pursuan…
24-77 GeLab Cosmetics LLC v. Zhuhai Aobo Cosmetics Co., Ltd., et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-07-25 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) abstention circuit-split civil-procedure colorado-river-doctrine federal-abstention federal-courts judicial-proceedings parallel-proceedings procedural-stay state-court-litigation Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in affirming the district court's stay of federal proceedings under the Colorado River doctrine
23-308 Paul Steelman, Individually and as Trustee of the Steelman Asset Protection Trust, et al. v. Ernest Bock LLC Ninth Circuit 2023-09-26 Denied circuit-split civil-procedure colorado-river colorado-river-doctrine federal-abstention federal-proceedings judicial-proceedings parallel-state-proceedings procedural-stay state-court-litigation stay water-rights Whether a stay of federal proceedings under Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States is permissible
20-1284 Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc., et al. v. Rick C. Sasso Federal Circuit 2021-03-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) abstention claim-construction exclusive-jurisdiction federal-abstention federal-jurisdiction patent-infringement patent-jurisdiction patent-law state-court-proceedings Whether a federal court with exclusive jurisdiction over a federal patent-law dispute may abstain in favor of a state court with no jurisdiction over …