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((more citations needed|date=March 2016))
((Infobox SCOTUS case
  |Litigants=Sprint Communications, Inc. v. Jacobs
  |ArgueDate=November 5
  |ArgueYear=2013
  |DecideDate=December 10
  |DecideYear=2013
  |FullName=Sprint Communications Inc., Petitioner v. Elizabeth S. Jacobs et al.
  |USVol=571
  |USPage=69
  |ParallelCitations=134 S. Ct. 584; 187 [[L. Ed. 2d]] 505
  |Docket=12-815
  |OralArgument=https://www.oyez.org/cases/2010-2019/2013/2013_12_815/argument
  |OpinionAnnouncement=
  |Prior=690 [[F.3d]] [https://www.leagle.com/decision/infco20120904092 864] ([[8th Cir.]] 2012) (reversed)
  |Subsequent=
  |Holding=Federal court abstention under the ''[[Younger v. Harris]]'' doctrine is not in order simply because a pending state-court proceeding involves the same subject matter. [[United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit|Eighth Circuit]] reversed and remanded.
  |Majority=Ginsburg
  |JoinMajority=''unanimous''
  |LawsApplied=
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'''''Sprint Communications, Inc. v. Jacobs''''', 571 U.S. 69 (2013), was a decision by the [[Supreme Court of the United States|United States Supreme Court]] in which a unanimous Court held that federal court abstention under the ''[[Younger v. Harris]]'' doctrine is not in order simply because a pending state-court proceeding involves the same subject matter.<ref name=opinion>[https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/12-815_qol1.pdf ''Sprint Communications Co. v. Jacobs''], ((ussc|571|___|2013))</ref> The case involved a dispute between [[Sprint Corporation]] and [[Windstream Communications]].<ref name=oyez>[https://www.oyez.org/cases/2010-2019/2013/2013_12_815 The Oyez Project: ''Sprint Communications Co v. Jacobs'']</ref><ref name=scotusblog>[http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/sprint-communications-company-v-jacobs/ SCOTUSblog: Sprint Communications Company v. Jacobs]</ref>

==Background==
[[Sprint Corporation]] had paid [[Windstream Communications]] for certain long-distance calls from Sprint customers to Windstream customers in Iowa. In 2009, Sprint withheld payment for [[Voice over IP]] (VoIP) calls after concluding that the [[Telecommunications Act of 1996]] pre-empted intrastate regulation of VoIP traffic. Windstream then threatened to block all calls to and from Sprint customers.((citation needed|date=March 2016))

In January 2010, Sprint filed a complaint with the [[Iowa Utilities Board]] (IUB) requesting a declaration that it was proper to withhold VoIP access charges.<ref>[https://efs.iowa.gov/cs/groups/external/documents/docket/mdaw/mdu0/~edisp/030034.pdf Iowa Utilities Board: Sprint vs. Iowa Telecom. Complaint and Request for Emergency Relief]</ref> Though Sprint settled the dispute with Windstream and withdrew the complaint, the board continued the proceeding so that it could decide the underlying issue of VoIP classification under federal law.((citation needed|date=March 2016))

In February 2011, the IUB issued an order with its own interpretation of VoIP’s classification under federal law along with a determination that Sprint was liable to Windstream for the access charges.<ref>[https://efs.iowa.gov/cs/groups/external/documents/docket/mdaw/mdc0/~edisp/058553.pdf Iowa Utilities Board: Sprint vs. Iowa Telecom. Order]</ref> Sprint then filed suit against the board in both [[United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa|federal district court]] (seeking a declaration that the Telecommunications Act preempted the board's decision and seeking an injunction against enforcement) and state court (reiterating the preemption argument, and asserting state law and procedural due process claims).((citation needed|date=March 2016))

The federal district court dismissed the case because of the pending state suit and ruled that the ''Younger'' abstention applied.<ref>[http://sblog.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Complete-appendix.pdf#page=13 Sprint v. IUB 4:11-cv-00183-JAJ]</ref>((better source needed|date=March 2016)) On appeal, the Eighth Circuit affirmed the abstention, vacated the dismissal, and remanded the case to the district court and ordered it enter a stay during the pendency of the state-court proceedings.<ref name=EighthCir>((cite court |litigants=Sprint Communications, Inc. v. Jacobs |vol=690 |reporter=F.3d |opinion=864 |pinpoint= |court=[[8th Cir.]] |date=2012 |url=https://www.leagle.com/decision/infco20120904092 |accessdate=2018-09-18 |quote=))</ref>

==Supreme Court==
Justice [[Ruth Bader Ginsburg|Ginsburg]] delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court.((citation needed|date=March 2016))

In ''[[Younger v. Harris]]'', ((ussc|401|37|1971)), the Supreme Court ruled that federal courts are required to abstain from hearing any civil rights tort claims brought by a person who is currently being prosecuted for a matter arising from that claim (the [[Abstention doctrine#Younger abstention|''Younger'' abstention]]). The Court also recognized three exceptions to this abstention: 1) where the prosecution is in bad faith; 2) where the prosecution is part of some pattern of harassment against an individual; 3) or where the law being enforced is utterly and irredeemably unconstitutional.

The Court ruled that none of the three exemptions to the ''Younger'' abstention apply in this case. Federal courts "are obliged to decide cases within the scope of federal jurisdiction" and "[a]bstention is not in order simply because a pending state-court proceeding involves the same subject matter."((citation needed|date=March 2016))

After the decision, the Eighth Circuit vacated its earlier opinion, reversed the [[United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa|district court]], and remanded the case to the district court for further proceedings.<ref name=EighthCir/>

== See also ==
* ''[[Verizon Communications Inc. v. FCC (2002)|Verizon Communications Inc. v. FCC]]''

==References==
((reflist))

==External links==
* ((caselaw source
 | case = ''Sprint Communications, Inc. v. Jacobs'', ((ussc|571|___|2013|el=no))
 | justia =https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/571/12-815/
 | oyez =https://www.oyez.org/cases/2013/12-815
 | other_source1 = Supreme Court (slip opinion) (archived)
 | other_url1 =https://web.archive.org/web/0/https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/12-815_qol1.pdf
 ))

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