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IVY CLUB v. EDWARDS

No. 90-6027.

943 F.2d 270 (1991)

The IVY CLUB v. W. Cary EDWARDS; Pamela S. Poff, Appellants, Sally Frank, Intervenor-Defendant. Sally FRANK, Counter-Claimant, v. The IVY CLUB, Counter-Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided August 21, 1991.

As Amended September 4, 1991.

Rehearing Denied September 16, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. Del Tufo, Atty. Gen. of New Jersey, Andrea M. Silkowitz, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jeffrey C. Burstein (argued), William H. Lorentz, Deputy Attys. Gen., Div. of Law, Newark, N.J., for appellants.

Barbara Strapp Nelson (argued), McCarthy and Schatzman, P.A., Princeton, N.J., for appellee, The Ivy Club.

Nadine Taub (argued), Rutgers Women's Rights Litigation Clinic, Newark, N.J., for appellee, Sally Frank.

Sally Frank, pro se.

Before MANSMANN, NYGAARD and ROSENN, Circuit Judges.

OPINION OF THE COURT

ROSENN, Circuit Judge.

This appeal, the procedural posture of which has all of the trappings of a law school examination question, requires us to explore the boundaries of the several theories under which the federal courts abstain from exercising their jurisdiction in deference to comity with the state courts. Specifically, the question presented is whether a party, who files a claim in federal court following a state administrative...

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