Petition 6518-R of Adamo Co.

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• explaining that federal courts should refuse to exercise jurisdiction in “ongoing state criminal prosecutions”
• stating that “Younger exemplifies one class of cases in which federal-court abstention is required: When there is a parallel, pending state criminal proceeding, federal courts must refrain from enjoining the state prosecution”
• explaining that “[w]hen there is a parallel, pending state criminal proceeding, federal courts must refrain from enjoining the state prosecution” under the abstention doctrine of Younger v. Harris, 401 U.S. 37 (1971)
• explaining the Middlesex factors are “additional factors” not to be “[d]ivorced from the quasi-criminal context”
• explaining that such proceedings constitute civil enforcement proceedings
• applying the Rule 12(b)(6) standard in considering dismissal under the abstention doctrine

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