allow litigants tó raise federal challenges.” ReadyLink Healthcare, Inc. v. St. Compensation Ins. Fund, 754 F.3d 754, 759 (9th Cir.2014). Only if those threshold requirements are met should courts consider whether a federal action would have the practical effect of enjoining the state court action. Id. Like ReadyLink, this case does not involve- a parallel criminal proceeding and there is no state order or judgment to be enforced. While a proceeding before the ODC has the potential to be “akin to criminal proceedings,” id. ODC’s investigation into this case has not progressed beyond the investigation stage. Other courts have determined that investigation proceedings, without more, do not trigger Younger. Compare Mulholland v. Marion Cnty. Election Bd., 746 F.3d 811, 817 (7th Cir. 2014) (<HOLDING>), and Telco Commas., Inc. v. Carbaugh, 885 F.2d
holding that absolute prosecutorial immunity extends to civil forfeiture proceedings holding district court lacked authority to order placement at a school not approved by the state holding that this court lacked preliminary authority to review the district courts jurisdiction because there was no immediately appealable order before the court holding state investigatory proceedings before a board that lacked prosecutorial authority were at too preliminary a stage to warrant federal deference holding that an appeal to an agency review board would be futile because the board lacked authority to invalidate ordinance as requested