Sprint Communications, Inc. v. Jacobs

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• holding that whether a pending state court proceeding “provides an adequate opportunity to raise federal challenges” is a relevant “additional factor[] appropriately considered by the federal court before invoking YoungeN (brackets and citations omitted)
• stating that Younger generally applies only when the state proceeding is “ ‘akin to a criminal prosecution’ in ‘important respects’ ”
• noting that, after concluding a state proceeding is quasi-criminal, the three Middlesex conditions are “additional factors appropriately considered by the federal court before invoking Younger”
• noting that the state court review of the state administrative proceeding was ongoing when the Eighth Circuit held abstention proper
• assuming expressly, as a threshold matter, that the state proceeding was ongoing
• fact that federal plaintiff also sought state court review of agency decision did not itself implicate Younger; proper focus was on the agency proceeding

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