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Gibson v. Berryhill
Supreme Court of the United States (1973) | 36 L. Ed. 2d 488; 93 S. Ct. 1689; 411 U.S. 564; 1973 U.S. LEXIS 74
TL;DR: The Supreme Court held that a federal court need not abstain from enjoining a state administrative proceeding where the state adjudicatory body was alleged to be unconstitutionally biased due to a direct pecuniary interest, thus rendering the state remedy inadequate.
Legal Significance: Establishes that the *Younger* abstention doctrine does not apply when the state tribunal is incompetent due to unconstitutional bias, as this deprives a party of a meaningful opportunity to raise federal claims in the state proceeding.