Barber v. Commissioner

How courts have described this case

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• holding that similar proceedings under the New Jersey Administrative SMITH, Circuit Judge, concurring in the Procedure Act “are clearly judicial in judgment: nature, and therefore meet the first part of the [Younger] test”
• stating that “the national policy against enjoining pending state court proceedings has since been extended to noncriminal judicial proceedings” and administrative proceedings
• recognizing the \obvious\ interest states have in regulating the practice of medicine
• affirming the district court’s decision to abstain and agreeing with the district court’s determination that “important to the public as a whole is regulation of the practice of medicine”
• finding a proceeding ongoing because the plaintiff “has the right to appellate review by state courts if he wishes to challenge the final decision of the [state disciplinary board]”
• finding the bad faith exception inapplicable where there was no evidence that either the investigation was “driven by a retaliatory motive or by some other nefarious purpose” or that the plaintiff had been “singled . . . out for adverse treatment”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).