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MIDDLESEX CTY. ETHICS COMM. v. GARDEN STATE BAR ASSN.

No. 81-460.

457 U.S. 423 (1982)

MIDDLESEX COUNTY ETHICS COMMITTEE v. GARDEN STATE BAR ASSOCIATION ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 21, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary Ann Burgess, Assistant Attorney General of New Jersey, argued the cause for petitioner. With her on the briefs were Irwin I. Kimmelman, Attorney General, James R. Zazzali, former Attorney General, Erminie L. Conley and James J. Ciancia, Assistant Attorneys General, and Richard M. Hluchan and Jaynee LaVecchia, Deputy Attorneys General.

Morton Stavis argued the cause for respondents. With him on the brief were Bernard K. Freamon and Louise Halper.*

Jack Greenberg, James M. Nabrit III, Charles Stephen Ralston, and Bill Lann Lee filed a brief for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., et al. as amici curiae.

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

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