COGGESHALL v. MASS. BD. OF REG. OF PSYCHOLOGISTS

No. 09-1111.

604 F.3d 658 (2010)

Joseph COGGESHALL and L. Lynn LeSueur, Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. MASSACHUSETTS BOARD OF REGISTRATION OF PSYCHOLOGISTS et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided May 17, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert S. Wolfe, with whom Robert Wolfe Associates, P.C. was on brief, for appellants.

Amy Spector, Assistant Attorney General, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with whom Martha Coakley, Attorney General, was on brief, for appellees.

Before LIPEZ, Circuit Judge, SOUTER, Associate Justice, and SELYA, Circuit Judge.


SELYA, Circuit Judge.

This appeal compels us to weave a decisional tapestry from several doctrinal strands that help define the margins of federal-court jurisdiction, including Eleventh Amendment immunity, abstention, and standing. The appellants (a psychologist and a third party) challenge a state administrative proceeding that resulted in the imposition of professional discipline against the psychologist. The district court determined that it could not grant relief...

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