Weitzel v. Division of Occupational & Professional Licensing of the Department of Commerce of Utah

TACHA, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff appeals the district court’s abstention under the doctrine of Younger v. Harris, 401 U.S. 37, 91 S.Ct. 746, 27 L.Ed.2d 669 (1971). We exercise jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and affirm. 1

I. Facts

Prior to August 24, 1999, the appellant, Robert A. Weitzel, M.D., was licensed to practice psychiatry by the appellee, Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing (the Division), a division of the Department of Commerce of the State of Utah. The Division had authorized Dr. Weitzel to practice medicine and to prescribe and administer controlled substances…