Legal Opinion
Massachusetts Delivery Ass'n v. Coakley
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided January 20, 2012No. 11-1441PublishedCited by 82 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Chief Judge.
The issue on appeal is whether abstention under Younger v. Harris, 401 U.S. 37, 91 S.Ct. 746, 27 L.Ed.2d 669 (1971), is proper in a federal court civil rights suit brought against the Massachusetts Attorney General by a business trade association, which is not itself a party to any relevant state litigation, and where three of its forty-plus members are defendants in ongoing state civil proceedings brought not by the Attorney General but by private parties. The district court found that Younger abstention was appropriate in these circumstances. Mass. Delivery Ass’n v.…
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