Dillon v. Alleghany Corp.

Dillon, Commissioner, Indiana Department of Insurance v. Alleghany Corp.

Dillon v. Alleghany Corp., 499 U.S. 933 (1991)

Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Decided: March 25, 1991
Docket: No. 90-1010
Citations: 499 U.S. 933111 S. Ct. 1383113 L. Ed. 2d 44159 U.S.L.W. 36521991 U.S. LEXIS 1849

Cited by 26 4 descriptions by later courts

Opinion of the Court

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C. A. 7th Cir. Certiorari granted, judgment vacated, and case remanded with directions to dismiss. United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U. S. 36 (1950).

How later courts describe this case

Explanatory parentheticals written by citing courts — 4 in all; the most informative distinct ones are shown.

(“Whether the state proceeds against malefactors administratively or judicially is a distinction irrelevant to the policy behind Younger.”)

Chester Bross Constr. Co. v. Schneider, 886 F. Supp. 2d 896 (C.D. Ill. 2012)
(Younger confined to cases where federal plaintiff violated state law, thereby exposing himself to state enforcement proceeding)

Brown v. Day, 477 F. Supp. 2d 1110 (D. Kan. 2007)
(§ 1983 plaintiff may initiate action to enjoin unconstitutional state conduct if he has not violated state law, has not exposed himself to a state enforcement proceeding, and is not a defendant in such a proceeding, but merely seeks to sweep away an illegal obstacle to his activities)

Planned Parenthood of Greater Iowa, Inc. v. Atchison, 126 F.3d 1042 (8th Cir. 1997)

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Nevada Entertainment Industries, Inc. v. City Of Henderson8 F.3d 1348 (9th Cir. 1993)
Brown ex rel. Brown v. Day555 F.3d 882 (10th Cir. 2009)
Hoover v. Wagner47 F.3d 845 (7th Cir. 1995)
L.C. Markham v. Dick Clark, Warden978 F.2d 993 (7th Cir. 1992)
Chicago Observer, Inc. v. City of Chicago929 F.2d 325 (7th Cir. 1991)
Majors v. Engelbrecht149 F.3d 709 (7th Cir. 1998)

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Chester Bross Construction Co. v. Schneider886 F. Supp. 2d 896 (C.D. Ill. 2012)
Brown ex rel. Brown v. Day555 F.3d 882 (10th Cir. 2009)
Brown v. Day477 F. Supp. 2d 1110 (D. Kan. 2007)
Executive Art Studio, Inc. v. City of Grand Rapids179 F. Supp. 2d 755 (W.D. Mich. 2001)
Midwestern Gas Transmission Co. v. McCarty120 F. Supp. 2d 1155 (S.D. Ind. 2000)
Kendall-Jackson Winery, Ltd. v. Branson82 F. Supp. 2d 844 (N.D. Ill. 2000)

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