Legal Opinion
Hachamovitch v. DeBuono
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided September 16, 1998No. Docket No. 97-9065PublishedCited by 70 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JACOBS, Circuit Judge:
Following state proceedings in which his medical license was suspended, plaintiff-appellant Moshe Hachamovitch, M.D., sued officials of New York State under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that certain physician disciplinary procedures are so deficient as to violate due process. The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Wood, J.) refused to exercise jurisdiction, relying on the Rooker-Feldman doctrine and Burford abstention. We conclude that the district court was under an obligation to exercise its jurisdiction over one claim but not the other,…
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