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- Title: Wicker V. Board Of Education Of Knott County
- Author : United States Court Of Appeals For The Sixth Circuit
- Release Date : January 14, 1987
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 74 KB
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In England v. Louisiana Board of Medical Examiners, 375 U.S. 411, 11 L. Ed. 2d 440, 84 S. Ct. 461 (1964), the Supreme Court provided a means whereby a federal court plaintiff could preserve his right to litigate federal issues in federal court even though he had been required by Pullman abstention first to present his state issues to the state courts. Railroad Comm'n v. Pullman Co., 312 U.S. 496, 85 L. Ed. 971, 61 S. Ct. 643 (1941). The plaintiff in England was obliged to repair to state court after the federal court abstained in order to let the state court decide those state law issues whose resolution might be dispositive of the entire litigation, thereby avoiding unnecessary confrontation between state and federal interests. The Supreme Court held that the plaintiff was not bound to forgo his federal forum but could, by notifying the parties and the state court that he was reserving his federal issues, limit the state court's determination to state issues even though it might otherwise have had concurrent jurisdiction. England also held, however, that when a federal court abstains and the plaintiff files a reservation in state court, that plaintiff can lose the federal forum if, inconsistent with his reservation, he thereafter fully presents federal issues to the state court.