Today's Ninth Circuit opinion is a dream read for civil procedure/federal courts scholars. It's all about Younger abstention and issue preclusion. And, as an added bonus, these issues arise in the context of a constitutional challenge to California Family Code Section 7962,
which codified the preexisting California cases that found gestational
surrogacy contracts enforceable. Fascinating.
Though I readily concede that "fascinating" may be an overstatement for those less enthralled by federal procedural minutia.