Phillips v. Virginia Board of Medicine

MEMORANDUM OPINION

ELLIS, District Judge.

Introduction

This suit by a psychiatrist to enjoin the State of Virginia from revoking her medical license raises an unsettled question under the Younger abstention doctrine. 1 Plaintiff, a Virginia resident, is licensed by the Virginia Board of Medicine (the “Board”) to practice psychiatry in the Commonwealth. She seeks injunctive relief in this Court to save her medical license, alleging that the Board’s revocation decision was unconstitutionally based on plaintiffs belief in, and practice of, fundamentalist Christianity. The Board, as a threshold…