Nicole M. Loch v. Fred Watkins John D. O'Hair County of Wayne Benny Napoleon the City of Detroit

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• finding that Younger abstention applied when there was an ongoing state forfeiture proceedings
• describing, without discussion, a § 1983 claim as an abuse of process claim
• first citing Huffman v. Pursue, Ltd., 420 U.S. 592, 609 (1975); and then citing Foster v. Kassulke, 898 F.2d 1144, 1146 (6th Cir. 1990)
• “We believe that Michigan’s interest in its forfeiture laws is directly correlated with its interest in the enforcement of the criminal laws.”
• the Court looks to whether the state court proceeding was pending when the federal complaint was filed; a state court proceeding remains pending until state appellate remedies have been exhausted
• state court proceedings “remain[] pending until a litigant has exhausted his state appellate remedies.”

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