Younger abstention
- A type of restraint where a federal court chooses not to intervene in an ongoing state process, typically of a criminal nature, provided it's initiated in good faith and not meant to harass the plaintiff
- The federal court applied the principle of Younger abstention to avoid interfering with the state's ongoing criminal proceedings.
- The judge cited Younger abstention as a reason for not inserting federal influence into the active state case.
- The ongoing nature of the state case and its initiation in good faith led the federal court to choose Younger abstention over intervention.
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