Younger-abstention

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25-6666 Daniel Carlos Garcia v. Chad Bianco, Sheriff, Riverside County, California Ninth Circuit 2026-01-29 Pending IFP collateral-estoppel constitutional-claim double-jeopardy habeas-petition penal-code younger-abstention 1. Whether the District Court erred in dismissing Petitioner's habeas petition on Younger abstention grounds without addressing the threshold question…
25-683 Peyman Roshan v. Douglas R. McCauley, Individually, and as former Commissioner, California Department of Real Estate Ninth Circuit 2025-12-11 Pending Response Waived administrative-procedure circuit-conflict civil-rights judicial-exhaustion supremacy-clause younger-abstention 1. Does California's doctrine of judicial exhaustion violate the Supremacy Clause under Williams v. Reed, 145 S.Ct. 465 (2025)? 2. If so, does this S…
25-6231 Jacob Bellinsky v. Rachel Zinna Galan, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii circuit-conflict civil-rights constitutional-claims federal-jurisdiction younger-abstention 1. Whether the Tenth Circuit's unpublished reversal—requiring federal courts to conduct mandatory Sprint analysis before invoking Younger abstention—u…
25-606 John Stockton, et al. v. Nick Brown, Attorney General of Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-11-24 Pending Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse Waived first-amendment judicial-review medical-board-regulation state-action viewpoint-discrimination younger-abstention 1. On September 16, 2025, the Washington Court of Appeals held that the State Medical Commission's COVID-19 misinformation enforcement policy targe…
25-584 Kenneth J. Rosellini v. Gary N. Wilcox, Individually, and as Judge, Superior Court, Bergen County, New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2025-11-18 Denied Response Waived civil-rights-statute constitutional-review due-process federal-jurisdiction state-court-procedure younger-abstention 1) Is there a full and fair opportunity for a person to raise constitutional issues in in state court attorney ethics proceedings, so that Younger Abs…
25-5979 Hubert Arvie v. Cathedral of Faith Missionary Baptist Church, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process federal-intervention judicial-immunity section-1983 younger-abstention Questions have risen out of state and federal court final judgments involving retaliatory, fraudulent, conspiratorial, and ultra vires acts or omissi…
25-413 Jean Dominique Morancy, Father of L.M., a Minor v. Sabrina Alex Salomon, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-06 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-rights-injunction due-process merits-inquiry procedural-standard younger-abstention 1. Whether Munaf v. Geren, 553 U.S. 674 (2008) requirement that courts consider the underlying merits—not merely jurisdictional questions—before absta…
25-275 Clifford James Frost, Jr. v. Dana Nessel, Attorney General of Michigan Sixth Circuit 2025-09-10 Denied Response Waived bad-faith-prosecution constitutional-challenge criminal-prosecution election-law pre-emption younger-abstention Does the "bad faith" exception to Younger preemption require the plaintiff to show that he or she has been subject to multiple criminal prosecutions a…
25A199 Peyman Roshan v. Chika Sunquist, Commissioner, California Department of Real Estate Ninth Circuit 2025-08-19 Presumed Complete administrative-action civil-rights judicial-proceeding procedural-barrier state-court younger-abstention Question not identified.
25-5221 Anna Gristina v. Juan Merchan, former New York State Judge, et al. Second Circuit 2025-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-claims federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman state-court-proceedings younger-abstention I. Whether the Younge r abstention doctrine requires a federal court to abstain from a state court civil proceeding (where a party seeks to pay for, a…
24-6532 Timothy P. Dasler v. Jennifer Knapp, fka Jennifer Dasler Second Circuit 2025-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights domestic-relations federal-jurisdiction state-action younger-abstention 1. Whether the Federal Court's "virtually unflagging obligation" to exercise jurisdiction prohibits Domestic Relations or Younger abstention when: A. …
24-6530 Timothy P. Dasler, Individually and on Behalf of T.D. v. Dalene Washburn Second Circuit 2025-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights domestic-relations due-process federal-jurisdiction state-action younger-abstention 1. Whether the Federal Court's "virtually unflagging obligation" to exercise jurisdiction prohibits Domestic Relations or Younger abstention when: A. …
24-6124 Bradley Dorman v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP court-access equal-protection first-amendment prison-litigation-reform-act three-strike-rule younger-abstention 1). Is the application of the Prison litigation Reform Act ("PLRA "), "Three- Strike " Rule, 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g) to Petitioner 's prior dismissals un…
24-588 Cyrus Mark Sanai v. Melanie J. Lawrence, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-12-02 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-review federal-jurisdiction party-presentation state-proceedings younger-abstention 1. Does the endorsement by the Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeals (among others) to raising Younger abstention sua sponte at the District Court or Court …
24-586 Peyman Roshan v. Melanie J. Lawrence, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-11-27 Denied Response Waived civil-enforcement constitutional-standing federal-courts ninth-circuit state-proceedings younger-abstention 1. At what point or points in time should federal courts analyze the factors for application of Younger abstention? There are at least six views expre…
24-5946 James B. Crosby v. Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process federal-proceedings heck-bar injunction supremacy-clause younger-abstention Can the Younger abstention be ignored when it is clear that federal proceedings began before State and should an injunction have been/be granted to pr…
24-382 Quannah L. Harris v. Tre Hargett, Tennessee Secretary of State, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-10-03 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights eleventh-amendment judicial-immunity prospective-injunctive-relief younger-abstention 1. Whether a civil rights claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 can proceed against a state administrative agency and an administrative law judge when the plai…
24-215 Jamus Bryant v. Bonnie Heather McLean, et al. Tenth Circuit 2024-08-27 Denied Response Waived due-process fundamental-parental-rights jurisdiction-fraud national-security-act subject-matter-jurisdiction younger-abstention 1. Whether the Tenth Circuit District Court and the Federal Appeals Court failed to address the specific and substantial allegation that the state cou…
24A27 Cyrus Mark Sanai v. Melanie J. Lawrence, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-10 Presumed Complete appellate-review comity constitutional-claims federal-jurisdiction state-proceedings younger-abstention Question not identified.
23-7373 Giovanni DePalma v. Florida Eleventh Circuit 2024-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1981 civil-procedure civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process emergency-petition first-amendment free-speech standing subject-matter-jurisdiction younger-abstention Whether the Petitioner is foreclosed from presenting a lack of subject matter jurisdiction and double jeopardy claim through an EMERGENCY PETITION FOR…
23-6694 Michael T. Braxton v. Warden, Anderson County Detention Center Fourth Circuit 2024-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process probable-cause state-corrective-process state-court-abuse subject-matter-jurisdiction younger-abstention Did the State of South Carolina deny the Petitioner a Substantial Constitutional right to a "Constitutionally Adequate " [ PROBABLE CAUSE] determinati…
23-291 Edward Little, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Andre' Doguet, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-courts presumptively-innocent pretrial-detention standing younger-abstention Whether Younger v. Harris, 401 U.S. 37 (1971), and its progeny require federal courts to abstain from adjudicating petitioner's constitutional challen…
23-97 Shannon Daves, et al., on Behalf of Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated v. Dallas County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-02 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-review mootness pretrial-detention standing younger-abstention 1. Whether Younger v. Harvis, 401 U.S. 87 (1971), and its progeny require federal courts to abstain from adjudicating petitioners' constitutional chal…
22-1161 Steve Cooley, et al. v. National Abortion Federation Ninth Circuit 2023-06-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-injunction civil-rights contempt contempt-sanction criminal-defense due-process fair-ground-of-doubt sovereign-immunity younger-abstention The constitutional issue addressed here is whether the District Court can punish two criminal attorneys for contempt and sanction them $200,000 for us…
22-883 Rachel Evens v. David Gilbertson, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-03-14 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights diversity-jurisdiction due-process judicial-immunity standing state-court-proceedings subject-matter-jurisdiction younger-abstention 1: What constitutes "acts in excess of jurisdiction" versus "the clear absence of subject-matter jurisdiction", with the judges being subject to civil…
22-676 Bonnie Carter v. Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-20 Denied abstention-doctrine civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process federal-claims federal-jurisdiction guardianship-proceeding standing state-agents younger-abstention Whether the Younger abstention doctrine requires dismissal of constitutional and federal claims arising from false reports and other lies told by stat…
22-478 David M. Greco v. Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2022-11-21 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process erpo-act fourth-amendment standing state-court-proceedings younger-abstention 1. Whether the fact that the challenged portions of New Jersey's ERPO Act are "... flagrantly and patently violative ..." of the Fourth Amendment to t…
22-6019 Richard Lee Green v. Dinh Hoang Phuong Ninth Circuit 2022-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitral-award federal-jurisdiction foreign-arbitration international-forum-shopping jurisdiction-abstention new-york-convention res-judicata younger-abstention younger-doctrine The Hague Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards commonly referred to as The New York Convention 1958 Article III re…
22-240 Jim Justice, Governor of West Virginia, et al. v. Jonathan R., Minor, By Next Friend Sarah Dixon, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-09-14 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived child-welfare civil-rights class-action due-process federal-jurisdiction federalism standing state-court-proceedings state-courts younger-abstention 1. Must federal courts abstain from interfering with state-court child welfare proceedings under Younger v. Harris, 401 U.S. 37 (1971)? 2. May federa…
21-7464 Ioan Lela v. Thomas J. Dart, Sheriff, Cook County, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-03-25 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus irreparable-harm pre-trial-detention speedy-trial younger-abstention I. Whether a pre-trial detainee, amid the ongoing Covid-19 crisis, can obtain dismissal of his/her pending state criminal charges in federal court pur…
21-997 Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. v. Arizona Attorneys for Criminal Justice, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-13 Denied Amici (1) civil-procedure civil-rights declaratory-judgment federal-courts first-amendment free-speech injunctive-relief standing state-criminal-proceedings state-sovereignty younger-abstention In 1990, Arizona voters amended the Arizona Constitution to include the Victims' Bill of Rights. See Ariz. Const. art. II, §2.1. Arizona then passed t…
21-6798 Daniel Everett v. Justices of the Supreme Court of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-proceedings civil-rights disability due-process involuntary-inactive-status licensee-rights standing state-bar state-bar-court younger-abstention This case asks whether the Younger abstention doctrine applies to a challenge against California State Bar rules which allow that agency to place lice…
21-620 Michael D. J. Eisenberg v. West Virginia Office of Disciplinary Counsel, et al. District of Columbia 2021-10-27 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-agency free-speech legal-representation standing state-regulation supremacy-clause younger-abstention The question presented is whether the Younger abstention doctrine applies when a state has indicated it will disregard the Supremacy Clause of the Con…
21-536 Christopher Chestnut v. Charles Canady, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-12 Denied Response Waived anti-injunction-statute civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction protected-class state-bar-discipline younger-abstention 1. Whether the district court may abstain from exercising its jurisdiction to enjoin an ongoing state bar disciplinary proceeding, pursuant to the You…
21-5876 Under Seal v. Virginia Board of Medicine Fourth Circuit 2021-10-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abstention civil-rights comity constitutional-rights due-process fair-hearing federal-courts federalism state-agency younger-abstention Whether Younger and its progeny permit federal courts to abstain on the basis of general principles of comity and federalism, from hearing Constitutio…
20-7917 Miriam Lowell, et al. v. Vermont Department for Children and Families, et al. Second Circuit 2021-05-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-abuse constitutional-rights cross-examination due-process pre-deprivation-hearing substantiation substantiation-process younger-abstention 1. Is a State's child abuse substantiation process sufficiently akin to a criminal proceeding such that it is subject to Younger abstention when a par…
20-1327 PDX North, Inc. v. Robert Asaro-Angelo, Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development Third Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law administrative-proceeding civil-procedure civil-remedies civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction standing state-court younger-abstention Federal courts have a "virtually unflagging obligation" to hear and decide cases within their jurisdiction. In Younger v. Harris, 401 U.S. 37 (1971), …
20-1168 Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services of Nevada, Inc., et al. v. Sharath Chandra, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights comity comity-doctrine due-process federal-courts judicial-discretion legal-procedure standing Younger-abstention Sua sponte decision-making marks a departure from the normal adversarial process. For that reason, this Court has limited the federal courts' discreti…
20-1149 Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., et al. v. Clare E. Connors, Attorney General of Hawaii Ninth Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied Amici (4) circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review sprint-communications standing state-enforcement younger-abstention Whether, under Sprint Communications, Inc. v. Jacobs, 571 U.S. 69 (2013), a federal court must consider the specific characteristics of an underlying …
20-1036 Robert V. Bolinske v. Supreme Court of North Dakota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-01-29 Denied Response Waived amendment-of-pleadings civil-procedure due-process first-amendment motion-to-dismiss rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing younger-abstention 1. Did the District Court and Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals err in refusing to allow Appellant Bolinske the right to serve and file his proposed Ame…
20-1011 Cyrus Mark Sanai v. D. Joshua Staub, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-01-27 Denied appellate-review circuit-conflict conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-disclosure judicial-ethics judicial-recusal whistleblower-protection younger-abstention 1. Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err when it refused to follow the unanimous holdings of the Sixth Circuit, Seventh Circuit, Eleventh Circuit…
20-757 Timothy L. Ashford v. Office for Counsel for Discipline, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) attorney-discipline bad-faith-exception civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-immunity race racial-discrimination standing younger-abstention The question presented is whether the federal court should abstain in an attorney disciplinary action when the Nebraska state court has placed bad fai…
20-469 Ivo Lindauer, et al. v. Elna Sefcovic, LLC, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-10-09 Denied Response Waived ancillary-jurisdiction civil-procedure comity concurrent-jurisdiction exclusive-jurisdiction federal-court-intervention judicial-comity kokkonen-v-guardian-life settlement-enforcement state-court-jurisdiction younger-abstention 1. Is the state court's jurisdiction exclusive and ancillary under this Court's decision in Kokkonen v. Guardian Life Ins. Co. of America, 511 U.S. 37…
20-17 Wade Robertson v. Richard A. Honn, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 28-usc-1963 civil-procedure constitutional-challenge federal-judgment-registration federal-preemption fraud-on-court judgment-registration registration-court rendering-court state-proceeding void-judgment younger-abstention Whether a registration court, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1963, has the power to amend or annul the judgment of the rendering court so registered, a quest…
19-525 Steve Cooley, et al. v. National Abortion Federation Ninth Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights contempt contempt-sanction criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel effective-counsel preliminary-injunction sanctions sixth-amendment younger-abstention How can a state court criminal defendant enjoy his Sixth Amendment right to effective counsel when his state court criminal counsel have been held in …
19-6126 Adelbaset A. Youssef v. Bill Schuette, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP abstention appellate-procedure circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights doe-v-univ-of-ky due-process federal-courts judicial-review motion-to-dismiss sprint-communications-inc-v-jacobs standing supreme-court supreme-court-precedent younger-abstention Whether the Six Circuit Court of Appeals ' decision affirming motion to dismiss on Younger Abstention conflicts with the Supreme Court 's decision i…
19-5557 Josiah English, III v. Theodore Campagnolo, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Judge of the Maricopa County Superior Court, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-jurisdiction irreparable-harm ninth-circuit standing state-officials younger-abstention Did The U.S. District Court of Arizona err in dismissing Josiah English I to state a claim in his civil Rights action, in view of the extraordinary ci…
18-1467 Ty Clevenger v. Melanie Lawrence, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Response Waived abstention administrative-hearing administrative-law article-iii-judges civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process federal-claims federal-jurisdiction judicial-review standing state-administrative-hearing state-court-judicial-review state-court-review younger-abstention younger-abstention-doctrine 1. The Younger abstention doctrine "naturally presupposes the opportunity to raise and have timely decided by a competent state tribunal the federal i…
18-1245 Oglala Sioux Tribe, et al. v. Lisa Fleming, in Her Official Capacity, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-03-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) abstention child-welfare civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process irreparable-harm parental-rights procedural-rights standing state-action tribal-sovereignty younger-abstention 1. Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in holding, in conflict with decisions of this Court and three other courts of appeals , that the possibility of f…
18-8509 Towaki Komatsu v. NTT Data, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2019-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitration arbitration-impossibility civil-procedure civil-rights contractor-misclassification due-process equitable-relief federal-courts federal-jurisdiction financial-impossibility rooker-feldman-doctrine standing supplemental-jurisdiction younger-abstention younger-abstention-doctrine Since the following is entirely true and accurate, how may it be credibly claimed that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit didn't substan…
18-1208 William M. Turner v. Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-03-18 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights continuing-wrong continuing-wrong-doctrine due-process heck-v-humphrey malicious-prosecution section-1983 statute-of-limitations tenth-circuit younger-abstention Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in finding that Appellant's 1983 and 1985 claims are barred by the Statute of Limitations. Whether the Tenth Circuit …
18-1203 Courthouse News Service v. Dorothy Brown, Clerk, Circuit Court of Illinois, Cook County Seventh Circuit 2019-03-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) from hearing First-Amendment-access on the basis of general principles of comity and access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights comity comity-doctrine court-access federal-courts federalism first-amendment younger-abstention Whether Younger and its progeny permit federal courts to abstain, on the basis of general principles of comity and federalism, from hearing First Amen…
18-769 Minnesota Living Assistance, Inc., dba Baywood Home Care v. Ken B. Peterson, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied Response Waived abstention abuse-of-discretion administrative-proceeding civil-administrative-proceeding civil-rights-preemption de-novo-review federal-preemption federal-question standard-of-review state-law younger-abstention younger-v-harris I. The question presented is whether the principles enunciated in Younger v. Harris and its progeny require a federal court, having properly before it…
18-6509 John Tedesco v. Monroe County, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process heck-v-humphrey prosecutorial-immunity rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 standing younger-abstention (1ST QUESTION ) MR TEDESCO'S COMPLAINT WAS DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE AN IN IT'S ENTIRETY. (2ND QUESTION) PLAINTIFF'S MOTION FOR LEAVE TO AMEND WAS DIS…
18-6211 Pedro Rodriguez v. San Diego County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-04 Denied IFP abstention-doctrine bad-faith-prosecution civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-error due-process exhaustion-of-remedies extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus paredes-v-atherton perez-v-ledesma prosecutorial-bad-faith standing younger-abstention younger-v-harris Whether the district court erred in failing to consider Petitioners claim under the Abstention Doctrine, YOUNGER V HARRIS 401 US 37 (1971), Prosecutio…
18-5995 Nathaniel R. Webb v. Donnie Harrison, Sheriff, Wake County, North Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied IFP abstention-doctrine circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-bail fourth-circuit habeas-corpus pretrial-detention speedy-trial younger-abstention Is Younger v. Harris abstention appropriate when challenging the denial of Constitutional protections at prosecution; specifically when does prolonged…