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CANATELLA v. CALIFORNIA

No. 03-15306.

404 F.3d 1106 (2005)

Richard A. CANATELLA, Plaintiff, and Randy E. Bendel, Intervenor-Appellant, v. State of CALIFORNIA; Board of Governors of the State Bar of California; President of the State Bar Association; The Judges of the State Bar Court; and The Office of the Chief Counsel of the State Bar of California, Defendants, and Ronald W. Stovitz; Judith A. Epstein; Madge S. Watai; Richard A. Honn; Patrice E. McElroy; Alban I. Niles; Joann M. Remke; Robert M. Talcott; James E. Herman; and Michael Nisperos, Jr., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed April 11, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Randy E. Bendel, Esq., Woodland Hills, CA, intervenor-appellant, Pro Se.

Jay M. Goldman, Office of the General Counsel, The State Bar of California, San Francisco, CA, for the defendants-appellees.

Before HALL, BRUNETTI, and GRABER, Circuit Judges.

BRUNETTI, Circuit Judge.

California attorney Randy E. Bendel appeals the denial of his motion to intervene as a plaintiff in a federal action bringing constitutional challenges to California's state bar statutes and disciplinary proceedings. The district court determined that it was required to abstain from exercising jurisdiction as to Bendel under Younger v. Harris, 401 U.S. 37, 91...

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