whenever parties who lost in state court ... seek[ ] review and rejection of that judgment in federal court”) (internal punctuation and citation omitted). The first element of Younger abstention is satisfied. C. Important State Interest Implicated As to the second element, implicated state interests are defined broadly to in-elude “the importance of the generic proceedings to the State.” NOPSI, 491 U.S. at 365, 109 S.Ct. 2506. Federal courts have long recognized the important state interest involved in “maintaining and assuring the professional conduct” of lawyers, doctors, and other professionals through enforcement of proper standards through state licensing schemes. Middlesex County Ethics Committee v. Garden State Bar Ass’n, 457 U.S. 423, 434, 102 S.Ct. 2515, 73 L.Ed.2d 116 (1982) (<HOLDING>); see also Bettencourt, 904 F.2d at 778
recognizing states interest in exercising extensive control of licensing of attorneys to ensure professional conduct holding that the us attorneys office is the alter ego of the united states exercising its sovereign power of prosecution recognizing the delegation of authority to the united states attorneys recognizing duty of parent to control conduct of child recognizing professional rules are not intended to run to personal benefit of attorneys adversaries