United States Ninth Circuit

Attorney's suit against the California State Bar and others, challenging bar statutes and rules of conduct, were improperly dismissed under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, and the mere self reporting of a sanction to a State Bar does not give rise to an ongoing judicial proceeding to warrant abstention under Younger, 401 U.S. 37 (1971). (Amended opinion)

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/05/2001
• Decided 06/12/2002
• Published 09/09/2002

Judges

• Before HUG, D.W. NELSON and HAWKINS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Richard A. Canatella (argued), Cotter & Del Carlo, San Francisco, California, plaintiff-appellant, Pro Se.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jay M. Goldman (argued), Dina E. Goldman, Office of the General Counsel, the State Bar of California, San Francisco, California, and Tom Blake, Office of the Attorney General of the State of California, San Francisco, California, for the defendants-appellees.