Yamaha Motor Corporation, U.S.A. v. Tony Riney Steve Landers Emmett Jones Jack Caldwell William Gandy Leah Leonard, Cycle Center, Inc., Intervenor

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• holding that a state tribunal was incompetent for the purpose of Younger abstention where there was “ample evidence of bias” on the part of a state motor vehicle commissioner, including a financial interest
• holding.that “[adjudication by an incompetent state tribunal precludes a federal court from abstaining, on Younger grounds.”
• necessary predicate for Younger dismissal is the opportunity to raise and have timely decided by competent state tribunal the federal issues involved

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