VESTER

v.

NORTH CAROLINA

Citator

Cited By

• Meier v. Keller, 521 F.2d 548 (9th Cir. 1975)
  …re too he was declared a fugitive and a warrant for his arrest was issued. In the meantime, the Supreme Court had denied the petition for certiorari with the notation “See Molinaro v. New Jersey, 396 U.S. 365 [90 S.Ct. 498, 24 L.Ed.2d 586] (1970),” 419 U.S. 1116, 95 S.Ct. 796, 42 L.Ed.2d 815 (1975). In Molinaro the Court dismissed a criminal appeal because the defendant was a fugitive. The complaints in the cases before us here are functionally, but perhaps not technically, the equivalents of motions to sup…
• Rice v. The Rice Found., 610 F.2d 471 (7th Cir. 1979)
  …courts deal with these problems daily and have developed an expertise which should discourage federal court intervention. These local problems should be decided by state courts. Bassler v. Arrowood, 500 F. 2d 138, 142 (8th Cir. 1974), cert. denied, 419 U.S. 1116, 95 S.Ct. 796, 42 L.Ed.2d 815 (1975). The fact that a federal suit may not directly interfere with state probate proceedings merely permits the exercise of federal jurisdiction, it does not require it. We agree with the Second Circuit that the scop…

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• Giardina v. Adele Fontana, 733 F.2d 1047 (2d Cir. 1984)
  …tion to abstain, citing Phillips, Nizer, Benjamin, Krim & Ballon v. Rosenstiel, supra, and two decisions from other circuits, Rice v. Rice Foundation, 610 F. 2d 471 (7th Cir.1979), and Bassler v. Arrowood, 500 F. 2d 138 (8th Cir.1974), cert. denied, 419 U.S. 1116, 95 S.Ct. 796, 42 L.Ed.2d 815 (1975). In Phillips, Nizer, we stated: [TJhere is particularly strong reason for abstention in cases which, though not within the exceptions for matters of probate and administration or matrimony and custody actions,…