Case Name: Helen WOE et al., and Evelyn Jones, Intervenor, Appellees, v. NEBRASKA STATE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE et al., Appellants
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1979-05-25
Citations: 598 F.2d 1146
Docket Number: No. 79-1380
Parties: Helen WOE et al., and Evelyn Jones, Intervenor, Appellees, v. NEBRASKA STATE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE et al., Appellants.
Judges: Before LAY, HEANEY and ROSS, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: Federal Reporter 2d Series
Volume: 598
Pages: 1146–1148

Head Matter:
Helen WOE et al., and Evelyn Jones, Intervenor, Appellees, v. NEBRASKA STATE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE et al., Appellants.
No. 79-1380.
United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
Submitted May 23, 1979.
Decided May 25, 1979.
Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied June 8, 1979.
Royce N. Harper, Asst. Atty. Gen., Dept, of Justice, Lincoln, Neb., argued for appellants.
David L. Piester, Lincoln, Neb., argued, for appellees.
Before LAY, HEANEY and ROSS, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The motion for a stay of execution of the order of the district court dated May 7, 1979, is granted pending appeal of that order granting a preliminary injunction against the defendants. The appeal of that order is hereby expedited for hearing at the September 1979 term of this court. The parties are ordered to arrange a satisfactory briefing schedule with this court's appeal expediter to permit the appeal to be heard in September.
This order is without prejudice to the right of either party to file any appropriate motion in this court to dissolve or modify the stay in the event the state district court or the state supreme court shall, prior to this court's September term, render a decision or decisions in cases relating directly or indirectly to the issues in this case.
We do not at this time rule on the question whether or not the trial court should have abstained from accepting immediate jurisdiction of this case. However, once abstention is decreed, it seems to us that a reasonable opportunity should be given to the state courts to act.
This order is conditioned upon the defendants' filing a statement that in the event the order issuing the temporary injunction is finally affirmed, defendants concede that the effective date of the injunction for payment purposes will be the date of the preliminary injunction issued by the district court, i. e., May 7, 1979.