MINOT v. ECKARDT-MINOT

No. 563, Docket 93-7393.

13 F.3d 590 (1994)

Jeffrey R. MINOT, and Jeffrey R. Minot, as the Parent and Custodian of Stephen Rafael Minot, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Astrid ECKARDT-MINOT, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided January 7, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cynthia Knox, New York City (Stuart R. Wolk, Wolk, Neuman & Maziarz, New York City), for defendant-appellant.

Charles W. Gerdts, III, New York City (Diana L. Weiss, Donovan Leisure Newton & Irvine, New York City), for plaintiff-appellee.

Before: NEWMAN, Chief Judge, CARDAMONE and GOODWIN, Circuit Judges.


JON O. NEWMAN, Chief Judge:

This appeal concerns the propriety of abstention in the context of a diversity tort suit implicating state domestic relations law. This issue arises on the appeal of defendant-appellant Astrid Eckardt-Minot from the April 19, 1993, judgment of the District Court for the Southern District of New York (Michael B. Mukasey, Judge) remanding the removed action of plaintiff-appellee Jeffrey Minot to New York State Supreme Court. Though we are...

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