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

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-Injunction Statute, is preempted by the judicially created Younger Abstention Doctrine. | | | |