091598P.pdf   07/09/2010  Vance Gillette  v.  ND Disciplinary Board Counsel
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  09-1598
   U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota - Fargo   
   [PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Gruender and Benton, Circuit Judges]
   Civil case - Attorney Discipline. District court did not err in abstaining
   from enjoining an attorney disciplinary matter before the North Dakota
   Supreme Court; the North Dakota Supreme Court's action does not
   purport to regulate the attorney's conduct before the Three Affiliated
   Tribes tribal court on the reservation and the fact that his alleged
   misconduct may have taken place with respect to tribal court matters did
   not preclude the North Dakota Supreme Court from conducting a
   disciplinary proceedings; the prerequisites to Younger abstention are
   present in the case - an ongoing state judicial proceeding that implicates
   an important state interest and which affords an adequate opportunity to
   raise federal statutory and constitutional challenges - and the court did not
   err in abstaining.