United States Sixth Circuit

Dismissal, on Younger abstention grounds, of a prepaid legal services plan provider's constitutional due process challenge to the Ohio Supreme Court rule governing the unauthorized practice of law is affirmed as plaintiff failed to show that its due process challenge to the rule will not be resolved in the course of current proceedings under Ohio law.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/13/2007
• Published 07/13/2007

Judges

• Before:  SILER and GILMAN, Circuit Judges;  ZATKOFF, District Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Philomena M. Dane, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, Columbus, Ohio, for Appellant.  Constance M. Greaney, Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur, Columbus, Ohio, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Philomena M. Dane, Jessica D. Goldman, Emily E. Root, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, Columbus, Ohio, for Appellant.  Constance M. Greaney, Joyce D. Edelman, Jacob H. Huebert, Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur, Columbus, Ohio, for Appellee.  John N. MacKay, Shumaker Loop & Kendrick, Toledo, Ohio, for Amicus Curiae.