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NIGHT CLUBS, INC. v. CITY OF FORT SMITH, ARK.

No. 97-4199.

163 F.3d 475 (1998)

NIGHT CLUBS, INC., doing business as Regina's House of Dolls, II, Appellant, v. CITY OF FORT SMITH, ARKANSAS; William W. Harding, Individually and as Director of Planning; Michael Fisher, Individually and as Commissioner; James Damron, individually and as Commissioner; John E. Keller, Individually and as Commissioner; George McGill, Individually and as Commissioner; Jack Grober, Individually and as Commissioner; Ronald W. Rouse, Individually and as Commissioner; Lawrence A. Devero, Individually and as Commissioner; Lynn V. Snider, Individually and as Commissioner; Robert J. Mulson, Jr., Individually and as Commissioner; Fort Smith Planning Commission, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided December 14, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eddie N. Christian, Jr., Fort Smith, AR, argued, for Appellant.

James M. Graves, Fayetteville, AR, argued (Gary V. Weeks, on the brief), for Appellee.

Before BOWMAN, Chief Judge, HEANEY and HANSEN, Circuit Judges.

HANSEN, Circuit Judge.

Night Clubs, Inc., doing business as Regina's House of Dolls II (Regina's), appeals from the district court's dismissal with prejudice of its federal civil rights action. Regina's argues that the district court erred in abstaining under the Younger doctrine,1 and that even if Younger abstention was appropriate, dismissal with prejudice was not. We affirm the district court's decision to abstain pursuant...

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