United States Ninth Circuit

In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action seeking the appeal of defendant agency's suspension of plaintiff's license to race horses in California, the Younger abstention doctrine applies, and the district court should have declined jurisdiction.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/10/2003
• Decided 06/06/2003
• Published 06/06/2003

Judges

• Before SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, GRABER, Circuit Judge, and SINGLETON, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Jerald L. Mosley, Deputy Attorney General, Los Angeles, California, for the defendants-appellants., Neil Papiano, Iverson, Yoakum, Papaino & Hatch, Los Angeles, California, for the plaintiff-appellee.