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• holding that state proceedings were ongoing where state filed notice to show cause prior to full administrative hearing
• listing the requirements for Younger abstention and dismissing action arising from state bar disciplinary proceedings as barred by the Younger abstention doctrine
• granting bar counsel absolute quasi- judicial immunity for their role in the attorney disciplinary system
• noting that “abstention is inappropriate in the 15 ‘extraordinary circumstance’ that the state tribunal is incompetent by reason of bias” and 16 that “the Bar Court functions as an administrative arm of the [California Supreme] Court, 17 which maintains final authority over discipline.”
• “sovereign immunity bars monetary relief from state agencies such as California’s Bar Association and Bar Court
• “Judicial review is inadequate only when state procedural law bars presentation of the federal claims.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).