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152667P.pdf   06/20/2016  Grand Juror Doe  v.  Robert McCulloch
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  15-2667
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
[PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Benton and Shepherd, Circuit Judges] Civil case - Constitutional law. In action by a grand juror in the Michael Brown matter seeking a declaratory judgment that the Missouri statutes restricting grand jurors from disclosing information were unconstitutional as applied to her, the district court erred in dismissing the matter and instructing plaintiff to pursue all of her claims in state court; the district court properly abstained from the immediate exercise of federal jurisdiction, but rather than dismissing the case, the court should have retained jurisdiction and stayed the proceedings while the parties litigate the state-law questions in Missouri state courts; when the state law claims have been resolved, if plaintiff's First Amendment claim has not become moot, plaintiff may return to federal court and pursue it.