MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

This action arises from the initiation of disciplinary proceedings against plaintiff Niles, an attorney duly licensed to practice law by the Supreme Court of the State of Hawaii. Plaintiff is alleged to have violated Disciplinary Rules of the Supreme Court of the State of Hawaii (hereinafter “DR”) 2-101(A)1 and DR 2-101(B)2 by publishing and disseminating statements announcing weekly visits by plaintiff or another member of his law firm to the campus of Leeward *134Community College for the purpose of providing free legal counselling to students and faculty at that institution.

Defendant Lowe is Chief Disciplinary Counsel of the Supreme Court of the State of Hawaii. According to plaintiff’s allegations, defendant informed him in early 1975 that his activities at Leeward College were being investigated. On September 2, 1975, after plaintiff had furnished defendant with certain information relating to those activities, plaintiff was summoned to appear before .defendant to receive an informal admonition3 based on defendant’s finding that plaintiff had violated DR 2— 101(A) and (B). Plaintiff alleges that he was told that he could seek a formal hearing before a hearing committee of the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of the State of Hawaii rather than accept the proposed informal admonition. Plaintiff rejected both of these alternatives and filed the instant lawsuit on September 24, 1975. He alleges that his first, fifth, sixth, and fourteenth amendment rights have been violated by defendant and will be further violated unless this court restrains the enforcement of DR 2-101(A) and (B). Plaintiff bases his claims for relief on 28 U.S.C. §§ 2201 and 2202 and on 42 U.S.C. § 1983. He invokes the jurisdiction of this court pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331 and 1343.4

The Anti-Injunction Statute, 28 U.S.C. § 2283, poses no statutory bar to the issuance of the requested injunction in this case since plaintiff’s claim is based on 42 U.S.C. § 1983. See Mitchum v. Foster, 407 U.S. 225, 243, 92 S.Ct. 2151, 32 L.Ed.2d 705 (1972). Nevertheless, the restraints on federal equitable power imposed by Younger v. Harris, 401 U.S. 37, 91 S.Ct. 746, 27 L.Ed.2d 669 (1971) and Huffman v. Pursue, Ltd., 420 U.S. 592, 95 S.Ct. 1200, 43 L.Ed.2d 482 (1975) here preclude the issuance of an injunction.5

In Younger, the Supreme Court prohibited federal injunctive relief against pending state criminal prosecutions unless the plaintiff could establish certain extraordinary circumstances permitting such relief. These prohibitions were extended in Huffman to at least certain types of pending state civil proceedings. At issue in Huffman were Ohio civil proceedings instituted by a county prosecutor under a civil statute proscribing obscene films. Huffman v. Pursue, Ltd., supra, 420 U.S. at 598, 95 S.Ct. 1200. The Supreme Court, noting the similarity in purpose and standards between the Ohio civil and criminal obscenity statutes,6 held that Younger restraints applied to pending state civil proceedings where, as in Huffman, the State is a *135party and “the proceeding is both in aid of and closely related to criminal statutes . . . Id. at 604, 95 S.Ct. at 1208.7

Lower courts have considered the applicability of Younger principles to disciplinary proceedings against lawyers. In Erdmann v. Stevens, 458 F.2d 1205 (2d Cir.), cert. denied, 409 U.S. 889, 93 S.Ct. 126, 34 L.Ed.2d 147 (1972) the Second Circuit held that a bar disciplinary proceeding was “quasi-criminal” and therefore fell within Younger’s prohibitions on federal court interference with pending state criminal prosecutions. Id. at 1209.8 Yet bar disciplinary proceedings 9 cannot be considered part of a State’s criminal justice system, see Polk v. State Bar of Texas, 480 F.2d 999, 1007 (5th Cir. 1973) and we do not find that using the “quasi-criminal” label advances analysis of Younger principles in this ease.10

Furthermore, we do not find the proposed interference in the pending civil case is “comparable to the disruption in Huffman of the state’s interest in maintaining the standards of its criminal laws,” Anonymous v. Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 515 F.2d 427, 432 (2d Cir.), cert. denied, 423 U.S. 863, 96 S.Ct. 122, 46 L.Ed.2d 92 (1975). The bar disciplinary proceeding at issue in this case, unlike the civil proceeding in Huffman, see note 6 supra, cannot be considered “in aid of” or “closely related to” st.ate criminal statutes. Huffman v. Pursue, Ltd., supra, 420 U.S. at 604, 95 S.Ct. 1200. As the Fifth Circuit has said,

we think it abundantly clear that when a Grievance Committee, by administrative action, undertakes to upbraid a local attorney for conduct deemed to be violative of the ethical standards of the profession, it is not in any sense acting in aid of the enforcement of Texas’ criminal laws.

Polk v. State, supra, 480 F.2d at 1002.11

*136While we agree with the Polk court that bar disciplinary proceedings have nothing to do with the State’s criminal laws, we nevertheless apply the Younger prohibitions to the present case because the processes for controlling the quality and character of a State’s bar are peculiarly within the competence of, and of interest to, the State judiciary. We are cognizant of the uncertainty and friction which could result from determining on a case by case basis which state interests are “important” enough to warrant federal abstention.12 However, the component of Younger which rests upon “the notion of ‘comity’, that is, a proper respect for state functions,” Younger v. Harris, supra, 401 U.S. at 44, 91 S.Ct. at 750, is nowhere more essential than in questions concerning a state judiciary’s ability to regulate itself. Federal interference can only reflect “negatively upon the state court’s ability to enforce constitutional principles”, Steffel v. Thompson, 415 U.S. 452, 462, 94 S.Ct. 1209, 1217, 39 L.Ed.2d 505 (1974), in the area of bar discipline where the Supreme Court has traditionally recognized the autonomy of the state courts. See, e. g., Cohen v. Hurley, 366 U.S. 117, 123-24, 81 S.Ct. 954, 6 L.Ed.2d 156 (1961) and Theard v. United States, 354 U.S. 278, 77 S.Ct. 1274, 1 L.Ed.2d 1342 (1957). As the court in Erdmann correctly noted, “It requires little vision to appreciate that if a state court were subject to the supervisory intervention of a federal overseer at the threshold of the court’s initiation of a disciplinary proceeding against its own officer, the state judiciary might suffer an unfair and unnecessary blow to its integrity and effectiveness.” Erdmann v. Stevens, supra, 458 F.2d at 1210. See also Wallace v. Kern, 481 F.2d 621, 622 (2d Cir. 1973), cert. denied, 414 U.S. 1135, 94 S.Ct. 879, 38 L.Ed.2d 761 (1974). Thus, in the limited area of bar disciplinary proceedings, we recognize an extension of Younger and Huffman from the criminal law context.

There remains for us to consider plaintiff’s claim that even if the Younger doctrine applies to. disciplinary proceedings his requested relief may still be granted on the basis of an exception to the Younger doctrine which permits federal intervention on a showing of bad faith by the state. The bad faith at issue here, it is alleged, stems from certain of the Disciplinary'Rules of the Supreme Court of the State of Hawaii which plaintiff claims expose him to more severe sanctions than the informal admonition which he is already scheduled to receive should he decide to appeal defendant’s decision. We need not pause to assess whether the Disciplinary Rules in fact have this effect, and if they do, whether they are legal. Any such rules, which apply equally to all members of the Hawaii bar, cannot constitute the type of selective bad faith prosecution which justifies an exception to Younger. See Younger v. Harris, supra, 410 U.S. at 48, 91 S.Ct. 746. Moreover, any threat which these procedures pose to plaintiff’s federal rights may be eliminated by his presentation of his contentions to the Supreme Court of the State of Hawaii and thus does not constitute the irreparable injury required before we may interfere with pending state proceedings. Id. at 46, 91 S.Ct. 746.

Since the pending state civil proceedings come within the scope of the Younger doctrine and plaintiff has not made a satisfactory showing that any exception to the Younger doctrine should be applied, defendant’s motion to dismiss *137is granted. See Gibson v. Berryhill, 411 U.S. 564, 577, 93 S.Ct. 1689, 36 L.Ed.2d 488 (1973) and Hamar Theaters, Inc. v. Cryan, 393 F.Supp. 34, 47, n. 13 (D.N.J. 1975).