Danner v. Board of Professional Responsibility of the Tennessee Supreme Court

COOK, Circuit Judge.

David Danner sued the Tennessee Supreme Court’s Board of Professional Responsibility (“the Board”) and its former Disciplinary Counsel, Charles High, during a Board investigation of complaints filed by Danner’s former clients. The district court dismissed his case without prejudice under the abstention doctrine articulated in Younger v. Harris, 401 U.S. 37, 91 S.Ct. 746, 27 L.Ed.2d 669 (1971). Danner appeals, and we affirm.

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We review de novo a district court’s order declining federal jurisdiction on grounds of Younger abstention. Fieger v. Thomas, 74 F.3d 740, 743 (6th…