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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


Certiorari denied · November 15, 2021
Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Questions presented

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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

  1. Nov 15 2021
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Oct 27 2021
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/12/2021.
  3. Oct 26 2021
    Waiver of right of respondent Charles Canady, et al. to respond filed.
  4. Sep 27 2021
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 12, 2021)