U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, 2002

Jonathan N. Brock v. Jennifer M. Joyce

Jonathan N. Brock v. Jennifer M. Joyce
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · Decided March 15, 2002 · Loken, Beam, Riley
30 F. App'x 674

Jonathan N. Brock v. Jennifer M. Joyce

Opinion

PER CURIAM.

Pretrial detainee Jonathan Brock appeals the district court’s 1 pre-service dismissal, under 28 U.S.C. § 1915A(b) and the Younger 2 abstention doctrine, of his pro se complaint seeking an injunction to stay state court criminal proceedings on the basis that they were retaliatory and brought in bad faith. We conclude that the district court did not abuse its discretion in declining to exercise jurisdiction, and we therefore affirm. We deny as moot Brock’s Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 62(c), construed as a Rule 8(a)(2), FRAP, motion for an injunction pending this appeal.

Accordingly, we affirm. See 8th Cir. R. 47A(a).

1

. The Honorable Carol E. Jackson, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri.

2

. See Younger v. Harris, 401 U.S. 37, 46, 91 S.Ct. 746, 27 L.Ed.2d 669 (1971).

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