ALLEGHENY COUNTY v. MASHUDA CO.

No. 347.

360 U.S. 185 (1959)

COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY v. FRANK MASHUDA CO. ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 8, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip Baskin argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the brief were Maurice Louik and Francis A. Barry.

Harold R. Schmidt argued the cause for respondents. With him on the brief were Don Rose and John L. Laubach, Jr.


MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case presents the question whether a District Court may abstain from exercising its properly invoked diversity jurisdiction in a state eminent domain case in which the exercise of that jurisdiction would not entail the possibility of a premature and perhaps unnecessary decision of a serious federal constitutional question, would not create the hazard of unsettling...

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