212632P.pdf   09/19/2022  Courthouse News Service  v.  Joan Gilmer
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  21-2632
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Stras, Author, with Shepherd and Erickson, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Civil rights. Plaintiff, a news service covering Missouri 
   courts, alleged the St. Louis County Circuit Court's delay in providing 
   reporters access to new complaints violated the First Amendment; the 
   district court decided to abstain under Younger v. Harris, 401 U.S. 37 
   (1971), and plaintiff appeals. The suit is not barred by principles of 
   sovereign immunity as the injunction sought would not enjoin the state 
   court from proceeding in their own way to exercise jurisdiction in case 
   proceedings; the district court erred in abstaining in the matter as the 
   case concerns a dispute over who gets to see newly filed petitions and 
   when, and neither of those questions is the subject of any pending 
   state-court proceedings; the case is remanded for further proceedings; on 
   remand, the district court should give continuing attention to the 
   delicate issue of avoiding excessive interference by federal courts in 
   state-court business.