United States Tenth Circuit

While administrative review of plaintiff's medical license may not invoke the Younger abstention doctrine, a filing of a complaint in state court while the federal court decision was pending will invoke the Younger abstention doctrine.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/24/2001
• Published 01/24/2001

Judges

• TACHA, Chief Judge., Before TACHA, Chief Judge, McWILLIAMS and MURPHY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Peter Stirba (John Warren May, with him on the briefs), Stirba & Hathaway, Salt Lake City, Utah, appearing for the Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Brent A. Burnett, Assistant Attorney General (Jan Graham, Attorney General, and Nancy L. Kemp, Assistant Attorney General, on the brief), Office of the Attorney General of the State of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, appearing for the Appellee.