RYNEARSON v. FERGUSON

No. 17-35853.

903 F.3d 920 (2018)

Richard Lee RYNEARSON III, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Robert FERGUSON, Attorney General of the State of Washington; Tina R. Robinson, Prosecuting Attorney for Kitsap County, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed September 7, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Taylor de Laveaga (argued), Certified Law Student; Eugene Volokh (argued), Supervising Attorney; Scott and Cyan Banister First Amendment Clinic, UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, California; Venkat Balasubramani , Focal PLLC, Seattle, Washington; for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Callie A. Castillo (argued), Deputy Solicitor General; Robert Ferguson , Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, Olympia, Washington; for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: Richard R. Clifton and Jacqueline H. Nguyen, Circuit Judges, and Jed S. Rakoff, District Judge.


OPINION

This appeal calls on us to consider the scope of federal court abstention under Younger v. Harris, 401 U.S. 37, 91 S.Ct. 746, 27 L.Ed.2d 669 (1971). In particular, we consider whether federal courts should abstain from exercising jurisdiction over a constitutional challenge...

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