United States Ninth Circuit

Denial of plaintiff's motion to intervene in a constitutional challenge to California's state bar statutes and disciplinary proceedings is affirmed where the district court properly determined that it was required to abstain from exercising jurisdiction under Younger v. Harris, 401 U.S. 37 (1971).

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/11/2005
• Published 04/11/2005

Judges

• BRUNETTI, Circuit Judge., Before HALL, BRUNETTI, and GRABER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Randy E. Bendel, Esq., Woodland Hills, CA, intervenor-appellant, Pro Se.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jay M. Goldman, Office of the General Counsel, The State Bar of California, San Francisco, CA, for the defendants-appellees.