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LEAF v. SUPREME COURT OF STATE OF WIS.

No. 91-3725.

979 F.2d 589 (1992)

Linda A. LEAF and Andrew B. Haynes, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. SUPREME COURT OF the STATE OF WISCONSIN, Board of Attorneys Professional Responsibility, Gerald Sternberg, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided November 12, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles L. Ollivier, Waukegan, Ill. (argued), for plaintiffs-appellants.

Warren D. Weinstein, Asst. Atty. Gen. (argued), Wisconsin Dept. of Justice, Madison, Wis., Edward A. Hannan, Godfrey, Trump & Hayes, Brian J. Henderson (argued), Milwaukee, Wis., for defendants-appellees.

Before CUDAHY and EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judges, and WOOD, Jr., Senior Circuit Judge.

HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Senior Circuit Judge.

What promised to be a routine, though unfortunate, attorney disciplinary proceeding has led us into a procedural thicket involving abstention, the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, res judicata, and the Eleventh Amendment. We shall now attempt to extricate ourselves, and in so doing, we shall affirm in part and reverse and remand in part the decision below.

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