Miles v. Wesley, No. 13-55620 (9th Cir. 2015)
Annotate this CasePlaintiffs and numerous non-profit organizations filed a class-action suit challenging one aspect of the LASC's consolidation plan: the consolidation of unlawful detainer (tenant eviction) actions into hub courts. The court affirmed the district court's dismissal of the suit on federal abstention grounds under O'Shea v. Littleton. In this case, plaintiffs seek precisely the sort of “heavy federal interference in such sensitive state activities as administration of the judicial system” that Younger v. Harris and O’Shea sought to prevent.
Court Description: Abstention The panel affirmed the district court’s dismissal, on federal abstention grounds, of an action challenging on statutory and constitutional grounds the Los Angeles Superior Court’s plan to consolidate unlawful detainer actions into hub courts. The panel held that the district court properly abstained under O’Shea v. Littleton, 414 U.S. 488 (1974), because the core of plaintiffs’ challenge was to the Superior Court’s management of its shrinking resources, and they sought heavy federal interference in the administration of the state judicial system.
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