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BURFORD v. SUN OIL CO.
Supreme Court of United States (1943) | 319 U.S. 315; 63 S.Ct. 1098; 87 L.Ed. 1424
TL;DR: The Supreme Court held that a federal court should abstain from hearing a challenge to a Texas oil drilling permit to avoid disrupting the state's complex and unified administrative scheme for regulating its oil industry, a matter of significant state interest.
Legal Significance: Established the Burford abstention doctrine, which directs federal courts to dismiss cases that would interfere with complex state administrative schemes, particularly where the state provides for specialized, centralized judicial review.