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Christopher Chestnut v. Charles Canady, et al.
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, No. 20-12000 · judgment April 28, 2021
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Questions presented
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Whether the district court may abstain from exercising its jurisdiction to enjoin an ongoing state bar disciplinary proceeding, pursuant to the Younger Abstention Doctrine, where the plaintiff, a member of a protected class, invoked the original jurisdiction of the district court pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1343.
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Whether the plaintiff, a member of a protected class, invoking the original jurisdiction of the district court pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1343, must also allege an exception under the Younger Abstention Doctrine to prevent the district court from abstaining from the exercise of its jurisdiction to intervene in an ongoing state bar disciplinary proceeding.
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Whether Congress’s power to enact 28 U.S.C. § 1343 establishing the district court’s original jurisdic tion to enjoin ongoing state bar disciplinary proceedings on due process and equal protection grounds, as an exception to 28 U.S.C. § 2283 the Federal Anti-Injunc tion Statute, is preempted by the judicially created Younger Abstention Doctrine.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Christopher Chestnut
For respondent
William Henry Stafford III
Office of the Florida Attorney General
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Nov 15 2021Petition DENIED.
- Oct 27 2021DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/12/2021.
- Oct 26 2021Waiver of right of respondent Charles Canady, et al. to respond filed.
- Sep 27 2021Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 12, 2021)