Federal Interference with State Prosecutions: The Cases Dombrowski Forgot

Date

1979

Citation

Douglas Laycock, Federal Interference with State Prosecutions: The Cases <em>Dombrowski</em> Forgot, 46 University of Chicago Law Review, 636–688 (1979).

UVA Law Faculty Affiliations

Douglas Laycock

Constitutional Law and Legal History

Center for the First Amendment

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