Cato v. Georgia’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2516 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) · 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 28 U.S.C. § 2281 · 28 U.S.C. § 2283 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Dombrowski v. Pfister · Zwickler v. Koota · Public Serv. Comm'n of Utah v. Wycoff Co. · Golden v. Zwickler · Douglas v. City of Jeannette
Most-quoted passages
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““ * * * a federal court should not, in the absence of special circumstances, intervene even by way of declaratory judgment in state criminal prosecutions. Special circumstances, of course, will appear if it is necessary for the federal court to protect some overriding federally guaranteed rights * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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