United States Eighth Circuit

In an action seeking to enjoin attorney disciplinary proceedings that defendant initiated against plaintiff, dismissal of the action is affirmed where the district court properly abstained under Younger because: 1) the disciplinary proceedings against plaintiff implicated important state interests; 2) the attorney disciplinary proceedings provided plaintiff an adequate opportunity to raise his constitutional claims; and 3) Arkansas Rule of Professional Conduct 8.4(e) was not "flagrantly and patently" unconstitutional "in whatever manner and against whomever an effort might be made to apply it."

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/02/2010
• Published 06/02/2010

Judges

• GRUENDER, Circuit Judge., Before BYE, COLLOTON and GRUENDER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

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