Thomas A. Warmus v. Lewis Melahn James Oetting William Hobbs

HENLEY, Senior Circuit Judge.

This case is on remand from the Supreme Court. In Warmus v. Melahn, 62 F.3d 252 (8th Cir.1995), vacated and remanded, -U.S. -, 116 S.Ct. 2493, 135 L.Ed.2d 187 (1996), we upheld the district court’s dismissal of Warmus’s 42 U.S.C. § 1983 damages action on the basis of Younger abstention, which is premised on the “longstanding public policy against federal court interference with state court proceedings.” Younger v. Harris, 401 U.S. 37, 43, 91 S.Ct. 746, 750, 27 L.Ed.2d 669 (1971). Warmus is the owner of American Financial Security Life Insurance Company (AFSLIC), a…