United States Ninth Circuit

Plaintiff's suit, challenging the Guam International Airport Authority from retaining its own legal counsel to conduct civil litigation, is dismissed under the Younger abstention doctrine due to the existence of a parallel action in the Guam superior court.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/16/2005
• Published 08/16/2005

Judges

• Before DOROTHY W. NELSON, CONSUELO M. CALLAHAN, and CARLOS T. BEA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Douglas Moylan, Esq., Eric A. Heisel, Hagatna, GU, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert M. Weinberg, Esq., David A. Mair, Esq., Mair, Mair, Space & Thompson, P.C., Hagatna, GU, for Defendant-Appellee.