213826P.pdf   12/23/2022  Herbert Igbanugo  v.  Minnesota OLPR
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  21-3826
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota   
   [PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with Loken and Grasz, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case. Plaintiff, a lawyer, sued the Minnesota Office of Lawyers 
   Professional Responsibility, the Minnesota Lawyers Professional 
   Responsibility Board, associated government officials, and lawyers and 
   other private defendants alleging, among other claims, they violated his 
   constitutional rights by pursuing an ethics complaint against him; the 
   district court did not abuse its discretion in abstaining from exercising 
   jurisdiction against the state defendants under Younger v. Harris, 401 
   U.S. 37 (1971); plaintiff waived his abuse-of-process claim against the 
   private defendants; plaintiff lacked standing to seek sanctions based on 
   the private defendants' alleged violations of the Minnesota Rules of 
   Professional Conduct; the district court did not abuse its discretion in 
   assessing a $50,000 Rule 11 sanction against plaintiff as the claims in 
   the suit were frivolous and motivated by retaliatory animus.