Brooks v. New Hampshire Supreme Court

How courts have described this case

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• applying Younger abstention when a plaintiff requested that a federal court enjoin, inter alia, a state paternity proceeding
• discussing circumstances under which a federal court should decline to proceed in light of the familiar Younger abstention principles
• applying abstention doctrine of , 401 U.S. 37 (1971) to bar a federal lawsuit that would “inject” the federal court into ongoing state attorney disciplinary litigation
• related state judicial or administrative proceedings addressing important state interests must be pending in order to justify Younger abstention
• “[A]n entire group of adjudicators cannot be disqualified wholesale solely on the basis of an alleged institutional bias in favor of a rule or policy promulgated by that group.”
• discussing bias exception to Younger abstention

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