TEMPLE OF THE LOST SHEEP INC. v. ABRAMS

No. 1103, Docket 90-7981.

930 F.2d 178 (1991)

TEMPLE OF THE LOST SHEEP INC., a/k/a Action Committee to Help the Homeless Now, and Henry Jerome Mackey, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Robert ABRAMS, Attorney General of the State of New York, New York News, Inc., Jack Newfield, John Davis, Thomas Whelan and Jill Laurie Goodman, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided April 5, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Roberson Jr., New York City, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Kevin W. Goering, New York City (Coudert Brothers, P. Rivka Schochet, of counsel), for defendants-appellees New York News, Inc. and Jack Newfield.

William K. Sanders, New York City, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State of New York (Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen. of the State of New York, of counsel), for defendants-appellees Robert Abrams and Jill Laurie Goodman.

Before FEINBERG, TIMBERS and MINER, Circuit Judges.


FEINBERG, Circuit Judge:

This fiercely contested litigation, which has been conducted in both federal and state courts since the fall of 1988, involves the interaction of the doctrines of abstention and collateral estoppel. Plaintiffs Temple of the Lost Sheep Inc., a/k/a Action Committee to Help the Homeless Now (the Temple), and Henry Jerome Mackey appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Arthur D. Spatt, J...

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