Middlesex County Ethics Committee v. Garden State Bar Ass'n
- Decided
- June 21, 1982
- Docket
- 81-460
- Status
- Published
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
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What later courts said
- concluding that being "judicial in nature" a state bar's disciplinary proceedings are "of a character to warrant federal-court deference" — United States v. Peter Morros, and State of Nevada R. Michael Turnipseed Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects (2001)
- holding that any doubts about respondent’s ability to have constitutional issues heard were laid to rest by state supreme court’s entertaining the issues sua sponte — Phillips v. Virginia Board of Medicine (1990)
- holding that federal court should abstain from enjoining disciplinary proceedings of the state bar ethics committee — Globe Glass & Mirror Co. v. Brown (1995)
Each line is a later court’s own words about this case, not a summary. Read the opinion before relying on it.
How the opinion begins
Chief Justice Burger delivered the opinion of the Court.
We granted certiorari to determine whether a federal court should abstain from considering a challenge to the constitutionality of disciplinary rules that are the subject of pending state disciplinary proceedings within the jurisdiction of the New Jersey Supreme Court. 454 U. S. 962 (1981). The Court of Appeals held that it need not abstain under Younger v. Harris, 401 U. S. 37 (1971). We reverse.
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Middlesex County Ethics Committee v. Garden State Bar Ass'n, 457 U.S. 423 (1982)Read the full opinion
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