[MamaTexan]

On your definition of comity, it is incomplete because there are certain types of civil cases, and civil rights cases where comity also applies (which First Amendment rights are sorta, kinda, considered "civil rights").

Curses on law.com...sorta, kinda. LOL!

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One way that the courts preserve "judicial economy" is by requiring legal actions to be brought only when there is some kind of "actual not conjectural injury." Even a liberal federal judge won't ignore that one when there is an actual injury.

So an actual injury would be the right of free speech WAS suppressed (like the case of the thread) because the arrest itself constitutes an 'injury' in the legal sense.

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Thanks so very much for your replies. I'm not trying to be dense, just trying to get a better idea about how this law thingy works. :-)

[woodb01]

So an actual injury would be the right of free speech WAS suppressed (like the case of the thread) because the arrest itself constitutes an 'injury' in the legal sense.

Absatively! Now you know more than our Congressional lawyers know about the law :-) And you wonder why our laws are such a mess in this country! And why they have entire libraries for what should be fairly simple!