Mansfield Houston, Plaintiff-appellant, v. Sherry M. Wilson, Deputy Prosecuting Attorney; Piercecounty Family Court Commissioner, Defendants-appellees, 97 F.3d 1459 (9th Cir. 1996)

MEMORANDUM^** 

Mansfield Houston appeals pro se the district court's summary judgment dismissal of his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action against Pierce County Court Commissioners David H. Johnson and James Marshall and Deputy Prosecuting Attorneys Sherry M. Wilson and Monica LaBeck. Houston alleged that their enforcement of his divorce decree provisions regarding child support payments violated his right not to be held in a condition of involuntary servitude and peonage. We affirm.

We agree with the district court that Houston's request for injunctive relief prohibiting the defendants from enforcing Wash.Rev.Code § 26.18.050, which authorizes the use of contempt proceedings to enforce child support orders, is barred by the Younger abstention doctrine. See Kitchens v. Bowen, 825 F.2d 1337, 1341-42 (9th Cir. 1987). Houston failed to establish the existence of an exception to the Younger abstention doctrine. See Fort Belknap Indian Community v. Mazurek, 43 F.3d 428, 431 n. 2 (9th Cir. 1994). Accordingly, we affirm the district court's summary judgment dismissal of Houston's civil rights action.

AFFIRMED.