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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.