Kenneth Scott Nivens Glen Lance Maners Terri Lynn Stork v. Peter S. Gilchrist, III

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a state officer sued in his official capacity was protected by the Eleventh Amendment
• holding that § 1983 claims against a district attorney in his official capacity were barred by the Eleventh Amendment
• explaining that the Supreme Court’s decision in “Younger mandates that a federal court abstain from exercising jurisdiction and interfering in a state criminal proceeding”
• explaining that “when a district court abstains from a case based on Younger, it should typically dismiss the case with prejudice; not on the merits”
• explaining that “when a district court abstains from a case based on Younger, it should typically dismiss the case with prejudice; not on the merits”
• recognizing that “when a district court abstains from a case based on Younger, it should typically dismiss the case with prejudice; not on the merits . . . but instead because the court is denied the equitable discretion ever to reach the merits”

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