Volume 74 Issue 3 Dickinson Law Review - Volume 74, 1969-1970 3-1-1970 Judicial Interference with Litigation in Other Courts Edward Dumbauld Follow this and additional works at: https://ideas.dickinsonlaw.psu.edu/dlra Recommended Citation Edward Dumbauld, Judicial Interference with Litigation in Other Courts, 74 DICK. L. REV. 369 (1970). Available at: https://ideas.dickinsonlaw.psu.edu/dlra/vol74/iss3/2 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law Reviews at Dickinson Law IDEAS. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dickinson Law Review by an authorized editor of Dickinson Law IDEAS. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Judicial Interference with Litigation in Other Courts EDWARD DUMBAULD* I. Introduction II. Summary of Frick v. Stevens III. Instances Where Courts Will Interfere with Pending Litigation A. Early Common Law and Its Conflict with the Ecclesiasti- cal Courts B. Early Common Law and Its Conflict with the Jurisdiction of Equity Courts C. Injuctive Relief from Pending Litigation Today IV. The Federal-State Court Dichotomy and its Effect on Injunc- tive Relief from Pending Litigation V. Conclusion I. INTRODUCTION A shudder of dismay ran through academic and publishing circles, especially among historians, when on January 19, 1965, Miss Helen Clay Frick, daughter of Henry Clay Frick, nineteenth century industrial tycoon, sued Dr. Sylvester K. Stevens, distin- guished historian of Pennsylvania,' in the Court of Common Pleas *A.B. 1926, Princeton; LL.B. 1929, LL.M. 1930, Harvard; Doctor of Law, 1932, University of Leyden, The Netherlands. Author of THE DEC- LARATION'OF INDEPENDENCE AND WHAT IT MEANs TODAY (1950); THE BILL or RIGHTS AND WHAT IT MEANS TODAY (1957); THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES (1964); and other books and articles on historical and le- gal subjects.