☩ SOTERIAN GLOSSARY ☩

Living Language Lexicon of the Soteria Covenant

Abstention

The doctrine under which a federal court declines to exercise jurisdiction over a case that involves unsettled questions of state law — deferring to state courts. Pullman, Burford, and Younger abstention.

Category: Common Law
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