Rooker-Feldman-doctrine

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25-6743 Gayle George v. U.S. Bank, as Legal Title Trustee for Truman 2016 SC6 Title Trust, et al. District of Columbia 2026-02-06 Pending IFP constitutional-injury due-process federal-jurisdiction prospective-equitable-relief rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-judgment 1. Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars federal jurisdiction over an original action seeking prospective equitable relief where the plaintiff al…
25-725 Edward Weinhaus v. Regina A. Scannicchio, Judge, Circuit Court of Illinois, Cook County, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-12-19 Pending Response Waived district-court-jurisdiction federal-lawsuit jurisdictional-challenge merits-dismissal rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-decision 1. Whether the District Court is precluded from exercising jurisdiction under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine when Petitioner's injury occurred prior to t…
25-527 Iván Vechioli Cruz, et al. v. Kiyomi M. Santos Onoda First Circuit 2025-10-31 Denied bankruptcy-procedure creditor-rights due-process judicial-review rooker-feldman-doctrine summary-judgment Whether if; United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, CASE NO. 24-1290 decided correctly validating United States Bankruptcy Court for the…
25A492 Robert L. Walker v. Brett Michael Waronicki, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-29 Application article-iii constitutional-violation due-process eleventh-circuit judicial-overreach rooker-feldman-doctrine Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals judges exceeded their judicial authority and violated due process by issuing conflicting opinions that p…
25-5852 Amro N. Elkabany v. Louis C. Shapiro, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Judge, Superior Court of New Jersey, Gloucester County, et al. Third Circuit 2025-10-09 Denied IFP 42-usc-1983 due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity rooker-feldman-doctrine state-law Part I - Constitutional / Federal Questions Whether judicial immunity bars relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when a judge conducts a secret, off-the-reco…
25-5016 General Parker v. Department of Housing and Urban Development, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-07-02 Denied IFP access-to-justice civil-rights due-process pro-se-litigant rooker-feldman-doctrine statute-of-limitations 1. Did the clerk's office's failure to file the petitioner's complaint and motion for an extension of time constitute a denial of access to the courts…
24-1129 Joan Carol Lipin v. Arthur Dodson Wisehart, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-05-02 Denied Response Waived district-court-discretion prefiling-judgment res-judicata rooker-feldman-doctrine rule-41-dismissal voluntary-dismissal Whether a district court can reopen a case and issue a partial prefiling judgment on some claims after a plaintiff's voluntary dismissal without preju…
24-6809 Ali R. Muhammad v. Lone Star Funds, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-03-20 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process federal-court judicial-bias rooker-feldman-doctrine sherman-antitrust-act Does CAPERTON v. A.T. MASSEY COAL CO. allow a plaintiff to sue in federal court by claiming a due process violation due to an unconstitutional potenti…
24-921 Kenneth Sorak v. Theresa Cisneros, former Judge, Colorado Fourth Judicial District Court, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-02-26 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment color-of-law constitutional-rights judicial-immunity rooker-feldman-doctrine rule-12b1-dismissal Did the 10th Circuit err in its application of the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine and 11th Amendment when state agents acting under color of law allegedly vi…
24-694 David Efron v. Madeleine Candelario, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-12-30 Denied Response Waived civil-rights-suit extrinsic-fraud federal-jurisdiction judicial-corruption rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-judgment Does the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bar a civil-rights suit alleging judicial corruption when the plaintiff does not seek to relitigate the state-court j…
24-6205 Nelson Bruce v. Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, as Trustee of Stanwich Mortgage Loan Trust C, et al. South Carolina 2024-12-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process federal-law rooker-feldman-doctrine seventh-amendment Whether the South Carolina Court of Appeals violated Petitioner's due process rights by limiting appellate review to pleadings and refusing to conside…
24-470 Michelle R. Gilbank v. Wood County Department of Human Services, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-10-28 Denied Amici (3) appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split federal-claims rooker-feldman-doctrine state-judgments subject-matter-jurisdiction Should the Rooker-Feldman doctrine extend to bar federal claims for damages where the state judgment neither awarded nor denied damages, meaning the f…
24-190 Terri L. Stiles, et al. v. John Clifford, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-21 Denied Response Waived due-process extrinsic-fraud permanent-injunction rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-judgment subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether a court may selectively apply the Rooker-Feldman doctrine to preclude federal subject matter jurisdiction by excluding from consideration a ju…
24-65 Tony Ping Yew, as Executor of the Estate of John Y. Wei v. Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2024-07-19 Denied civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60b en-banc-review federal-jurisdiction judicial-immunity procedural-defect rooker-feldman-doctrine sovereign-immunity summary-judgment void-judgment Whether the Third Circuit have any jurisdictional power to rule to begin with; and even if the lower courts have jurisdictional power, Whether it is v…
23-1375 Anthony Italo Provitola v. Dennis L. Comer, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-02 Denied Response Waived color-of-state-law constitutional-rights federal-jurisdiction litigation-privilege rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 Whether the lower courts' decisions should be vacated and the case remanded for reconsideration in light of Supreme Court precedents regarding jurisdi…
23-7720 Patsy N. Sakuma v. Association of Apartment Owners of the Tropics of Waikele, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights cross-appeal cross-appeal-rules due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-exception rico-merits rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine summary-judgment Whether 42 U.S.C. Sections 1985(2),(3) and a new Rooker-Feldman exception that exists also under Lance v. Dennis are jurisdictional exceptions to the …
23-1294 Debra A. Charles v. Anna-Jonesboro National Bank, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-06-12 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure-12b6 civil-rights due-process private-right-of-action rooker-feldman-doctrine standing statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Charles fails to state a cause of action upon which relief can be granted?
23-7684 Andrew W. Bell v. Brad Raffensberger, Georgia Secretary of State, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP ballot-access constitutional-rights due-process election-law first-amendment first-amendment-rights fourteenth-amendment independent-candidates rooker-feldman-doctrine signature-verification Should-the-Rooker-Feldman-doctrine-apply-to-moot-decisions-by-state-courts
23-7518 Kelly McGoffney v. Matthew Kincaid, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 7th-amendment access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process estate-closure federal-appellate-review rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-jurisdiction state-court-transfer Can the Court exercise jurisdiction to remedy violations of the petitioner's constitutional rights?
23-930 Duringer Law Group PLC, et al. v. Janey Brown, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-02-27 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure collection-costs exxon-mobil-corp-v-saudi-basic-industries-corp fair-debt-collection-practices-act federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-judgment state-court-judgments subject-matter-jurisdiction May debtors let stand a state-court money judgment against them, waiving the right to dispute postjudgment collection costs, and then challenge those …
23-821 Michelle Smith v. Peter B. Krupp, Judge, Superior Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk County, et al. First Circuit 2024-01-30 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fraud fraud-of-court jurisdiction rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 state-court-proceedings title-42 usurpation-of-power Whether the Rooker Feldman Doctrine was intended to shield Defendants in a Title 42 section 1983 claim, in immunity for their actions of fraudulently …
23-673 In Re Jeffrey Lance Hill, Sr. 2023-12-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 5th-amendment civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment property-rights res-judicata rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing takings takings-clause Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars a federal court from considering a takings claim under the Fifth Amendment when the state court proceedings d…
23-381 Richard Sharif v. Myron F. Mackoff, Associate Judge, Circuit Court of Illinois, Cook County Seventh Circuit 2023-10-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process judicial-immunity jurisdictional-bounds legal-procedure rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-court-order Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bar a claim
23-360 Richard Sharif, et al. v. Horace Fox, Jr., as Trustee Seventh Circuit 2023-10-04 Denied bankruptcy-court due-process foreign-court jurisdiction probate rooker-feldman-doctrine Whether a bankruptcy court has the jurisdiction to overrule an Aleppo Syria foreign probate court order or whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine applies…
23-338 Byron V. Bush, et ux. v. Reliant Bank, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-09-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) breach-of-contract civil-rights due-process fdic-bank fraud-upon-the-court judicial-defendants rooker-feldman-doctrine sovereign-immunity standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in determining that facts from one party are sufficient to determine subject matter jurisdiction and case outcome
23-157 Samuel O. Jacobs v. Kent Jacobs, et al. Second Circuit 2023-08-17 Denied Response Waived 11th-amendment 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-amendment federal-procedure rooker-feldman-doctrine sovereign-immunity Can a State Court use the 11th Amendment, Soverign Immunity, and the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine to justify or allow it to violate the 14th, 8th, 5th, and…
23-102 Marvin Carrera v. Rhonda K. Forsberg Ninth Circuit 2023-08-02 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-violations constitutional-due-process constitutional-violations eleventh-amendment federal-court-jurisdiction judicial-immunity rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-federal-court Can a Judge use the Rooker-Feldman doctrine to divert the State Federal Court from looking in to violation of civil and Constitutional violations?
22-7873 Aguina Aguina v. Choong-Dae Kang, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP article-iii bankruptcy-settlement constitutional-authority court-of-appeals judicial-discretion ninth-circuit public-policy rooker-feldman-doctrine Did the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit err in approving the settlement of Trustee's and petitioner ex-wife's dispute
22-7508 Herma Barbara Medina Reyna v. PNC Bank, N.A., et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-05-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (4)IFP civil-rights due-process foreclosure foreclosure-fraud mortgage-ownership punitive-damages racketeering rooker-feldman-doctrine standing title-fraud Can a party who was wronged by a bank or business entity that committed mass fraud, misrepresentation, and racketeering actions retain a judgment in a…
22-1087 Douglas Bruce v. City and County of Denver, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-05-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure due-process federal-court judicial-review procedural-due-process rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-litigation subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the Rooker-Feldman doctrine preclude the District Court from recognizing subject matter jurisdiction over the claims filed by Mr. Bruce in federa…
22-1035 Shoman Kasbekar, et al. v. Ivy Station Community Association, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-25 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction pleading rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court state-court-jurisdiction Whether a state court acts with jurisdiction and in a manner consistent with Fourteenth Amendment Due Process when it enters judgment on a pleading ex…
22-813 Samuel Edward Trapp v. John Gunn, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-02-28 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 bar-licensing civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-action declaratory-relief due-process licensing rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-court state-court-action Does the Rooker-Feldman doctrine foreclose a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action in federal court against individual influencers of a state's attorney licensing p…
22-725 Peter Kleidman v. Thomas L. Willhite, Jr., Associate Justice, Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-02-02 Denied civil-procedure constitutional-discrimination due-process due-process-rights exxon federal-jurisdiction injury-in-fact jurisdiction rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-review Is there sufficient disarray in post-Exxon Rooker-Feldman jurisprudence to warrant clarification?
22-701 Norman Bartsch Herterich v. Mary E. Wiss, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-01-27 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-review claims-and-issues constitutional-violations district-court federal-constitutional-violations federal-district-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-adjudication state-court-proceedings Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars federal-district-court jurisdiction over an action merely because the action alleges federal-constitutional-v…
22-552 Camellia Grill Holdings, Inc. v. Grill Holdings, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-12-16 Denied Response Waived circuit-split contractual-terms due-process due-process-clause exxon-mobil inextricably-intertwined intellectual-property property-rights rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine Whether the Court should resolve the circuit split in the wake of Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Saudi Basic Industries Corp., 544 U.S. 280 (2005) and elucidate…
22-475 Binyamin I. Efreom, et al. v. Daniel McKee, Governor of Rhode Island, et al. First Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied Response Waived civil-rights contract-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment pension-reform procedural-due-process rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 taking-without-compensation takings Whether Petitioners' procedural due-process, takings, contract-rights were violated by deprivation of federal-remedy
22-5482 William Paul Burch v. Homeward Residential Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2022-09-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bankruptcy-court due-process in-forma-pauperis non-article-iii-judge removal-court removal-jurisdiction removal-time-limit rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-appeals thirty-day-window vexatious-litigant Question not identified
21-8282 Allan M. Leavitt v. United Services Automobile Association, et al. First Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights contract-dispute declaratory-relief due-process federal-jurisdiction injunctive-relief lance-v-dennis rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine specific-performance standing Did the Court of Appeals violate Petitioner's rights when it relied on the Rooker-Feldman doctrine as authority and affirmed dismissal his Complaints …
21-1498 Norman Bartsch Herterich v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-05-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) adjudication appellate-review constitutional-violations district-court-dismissal due-process federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-proceedings Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars federal-district-court jurisdiction over an action merely because the action alleges Constitutional-violation…
21-1483 Leander Bacon, et ux. v. United States, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-05-25 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process ejectment-action foreclosure-dispute issue-preclusion rooker-feldman-doctrine standing takings title-restoration veterans-affairs veterans-rights Whether the Bacons' complaint constitutes an 'ejectment' action
21-1437 Carol M. Kam v. Dallas County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process judicial-conduct judicial-misconduct non-final-orders probate-court rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-court-orders state-court-ruling Can the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine apply to non-final state court rulings?
21-1216 Yan Ping Xu v. Suffolk County, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2022-03-08 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment frivolous frivolous-claim privacy-invasion rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-court-order warrantless-seizure Whether the appeal has been properly dismissed because it 'lacks an arguable basis either in law or in fact' Neitzke v. Williams, 490 U.S. 319, 325 (1…
21-7050 Guy Cozzi v. New York State Workers' Compensation Board, et al. Second Circuit 2022-02-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process equal-protection federal-courts judicial-review necessary-and-proper-clause rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing supreme-court-discretion Whether Section 25 of the Judiciary Act of 1789 violates the Constitution
21-979 Carla Young v. Brian Lundstrom, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied Relisted (2) abstention abstention-doctrine circuit-split federal-jurisdiction inextricably-intertwined injunctive-relief rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-judgment Whether receiving benefits pursuant to a state-court judgment is an independent claim or an injury caused by a state-court judgment
21-878 Carl Michael Seibert v. Jeremy McIntire, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-14 Denied civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-question rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 state-court-judgments subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Eleventh Circuit's purported 'inextricably intertwined' standard for evaluating jurisdictional claims under Rooker-Feldman arbitrarily and…
21-804 Philippe Zogbe Zatta v. Steven Charles Eldred, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied Response Waived child-support civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fraud immunity parental-rights rooker-feldman-doctrine state-jurisdiction Whether Petitioner can be prosecuted for not providing support to his child
21-703 RLR Investments, LLC v. City of Pigeon Forge, Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2021-11-15 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exxon-mobil fifth-amendment interlocutory-order property-taking rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-order takings Whether a United States District Court can dismiss claims brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Fifth Amendment due to an interlocutory state court o…
21-461 Carol M. Kam v. John B. Peyton, Jr. Fifth Circuit 2021-09-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights due-process final-orders judicial-procedure legal-finality rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-orders texas-statutes unsigned-orders Does the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine apply to two incomplete, illegal proposed State Court Rulings
20-1703 Martin Dekom v. Federal National Mortgage Association, et al. Second Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection foreclosure-procedure judicial-authority judicial-usurpation mortgage-fraud rooker-feldman-doctrine second-amendment standing Can courts alleviate their backlog by letting staffers usurp the authority of judges?
20-1555 Ruth McLean v. 800 DC, LLC, et al. Third Circuit 2021-05-07 Denied due-process fraud fraudulent-measures jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-judgment void void-ab-initio Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine applies when the underlying state-court judgment is void ab initio
20-7601 Lynn Z. Smith v. New Jersey Bureau of Securities Third Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied IFP additional-documents bankruptcy bankruptcy-claim claim-objection creditor creditor-documents debtor debtor-rights evidence-discovery judicial-procedure rooker-feldman-doctrine When a Bankruptcy Debtor files a formal objection to the amount of a Creditor's claim and requests that the Creditor provide the Additional Documents …
20-1317 Holly MacIntyre v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. Tenth Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied Response Waived attorneys-fees civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction fraud fraud-damages monetary-relief rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-judgment Whether a plaintiff in a diversity case who seeks monetary relief — for damages emanating from the defendant's fraud in procuring a state-court judgme…
20-7226 John R. Scannell v. Washington State Bar Association, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP disciplinary-proceedings first-amendment fourteenth-amendment investigation judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction obstruction res-judicata rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court unlawful-practice Did the Washington State Supreme Court have jurisdiction to conduct original disciplinary proceedings against Scannell?
20-1036 Robert V. Bolinske v. Supreme Court of North Dakota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-01-29 Denied Response Waived amendment-of-pleadings civil-procedure due-process first-amendment motion-to-dismiss rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing younger-abstention Did the lower courts err in refusing to allow Appellant Bolinske to amend his complaint?
20-6507 Darrell Berry, et ux. v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-court federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment foreclosure rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court Whether the Berrys' Fifth Amendment Rights to Due Process were Violated
20-755 Kenan Biberovic v. City of Culver City, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied 28-usc-1343 28-usc-1831 28-usc-sections circuit-split extrinsic-fraud federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman-doctrine subject-matter-jurisdiction Has the court of appeals failed to exercise the federal jurisdiction given it by Congress under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1831 & 1343(a)(3) & (4), by refusing to a…
20-657 Tony C. Thomas, for the Estate of Thalia Dukes v. Lawrence S. Craige Fourth Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction guardian-ad-litem rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-court-judgment state-court-judgments subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars a federal suit where the plaintiff was denied the opportunity to present his case in state court
20-592 Hallmark Care Services, Inc., et al. v. Superior Court of Washington, Spokane County, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-04 Denied civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-immunity rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-action state-court-proceedings Does the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bar federal constitutional claims arising from a government action in the state trial court before a final ruling in …
20-433 Mark Anthony Jenkins v. Timothy O'Rourke, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-10-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) child-custody-dispute civil-rights conspiracy de-novo-review due-process judicial-conspiracy res-judicata rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983-lawsuit subject-matter-jurisdiction void-ab-initio Whether the federal courts erred in dismissing this 42 U.S.C. 1983 lawsuit under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine
20-5886 Lynn Z. Smith v. Andrea Dobin Third Circuit 2020-10-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP additional-documents bankruptcy bankruptcy-claim bankruptcy-judge bankruptcy-trustee creditor-claim creditor-documents debtor-rights evidence-discovery judicial-procedure rooker-feldman-doctrine When can a bankruptcy debtor obtain additional documents from a creditor to challenge the creditor's claim?
20-329 Julie M. Sowell, et al. v. Tinley, Renehan & Dost, LLP, et al. Second Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-actors Does the Rooker-Feldman doctrine apply to interlocutory orders that are entered in state court proceedings that end after the federal court action is …
20-5602 Robyn Jill Farrington v. U.S. Bank Trust N.A., as Trustee for LSF9 Master Participation Trust, et al. Third Circuit 2020-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP bankruptcy bankruptcy-court equitable-powers fraud mortgage-foreclosure proof-of-claim res-judicata Rooker-Feldman-doctrine Whether claims of fraud in a mortgage foreclosure action are barred by the Rooker-Feldman doctrine and res judicata
20-5068 Li Qin v. Barbara Kong-Brown, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment ada-protection arbitration arbitration-fraud civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-jurisdiction due-process fraud medical-malpractice rooker-feldman-doctrine Where is the jurisdiction in U.S.A. over a corruptive arbitration?
19-8841 Gregory Moore v. Orange County, California, et al. California 2020-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment government-liability rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine Should the United States Supreme Court overturn a state case where serious United States Constitutional human rights have been violated by government …
19-8869 Robert Wade v. Monroe County District Attorney, et al. Third Circuit 2020-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-action District-Attorney's-Office-for-the-Third-Judicial- district-court-order due-process rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 Skinner-v-Switzer standing supreme-court-precedent Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine was properly applied
19-1394 Edward Ronny Arnold v. Herbert Slatery, III, Attorney General of Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2020-06-19 Denied Response Waived appeals civil-action civil-procedure civil-procedure-rooker-feldman civil-rights damages due-process federal-courts legal-fees pro-se-litigation rooker-feldman-doctrine sixth-circuit-court standing state-courts state-employee-wages Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit misapplied the Rooker-Feldman doctrine
19-1367 Vernon Lee Havens, II v. Maureen O'Connor, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-06-12 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-guarantees due-process equal-protection equal-treatment federal-law judicial-immunity jurisdiction rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 section-1988 superior-courts Do Mireles v. Waco, Brookings v. Clunk, and associated case law combine to grant absolute judicial immunity to all other regulation, Section 1988 suit…
19-1287 In Re Robert Sarhan, et ux. 2020-05-13 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process mandamus prohibition rooker-feldman-doctrine sanctions standing state-court-judgment writ-of-certiorari Should a writ of mandamus be issued to the Eleventh Circuit
19-1205 Anthony J. Lucero v. Paul Gordon, et al. Tenth Circuit 2020-04-09 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment certificate-of-review civil-procedure due-process federal-review legal-malpractice rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine sham-affidavit state-actor state-actors state-court-judgments Does the Rooker-Feldman doctrine permit this United States Supreme Court to review state trial court documents and judgments in this case within a cas…
19-994 Jeffrey Lance Hill, Sr. v. Leandra G. Johnson, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) civil-procedure constitutional-challenge due-process eighth-amendment judicial-review rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-agency-action state-agency-actions state-court-judgments Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit violated the Due Process Clause when applying the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine
19-7579 Philip G. Barry v. Thomas Perkins, et ux. Second Circuit 2020-02-06 Denied IFP automatic-stay bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-courts bankruptcy-jurisdiction bankruptcy-law federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-judgment state-court-judgments void-ab-initio Whether the so-called 'Rooker-Feldman Doctrine' strips bankruptcy and other lower federal courts of jurisdiction to avoid or otherwise declare a state…
19-938 Sean A. Clark v. New York Commissioner of Social Services Second Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied Response Waived administrative-fraud civil-procedure civil-rights disability-benefits due-process federal-jurisdiction fraud rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine social-services standing statute-of-limitations Can a federal district court review a state court ruling, exempting the case via Rooker-Feldman preclusion, where the state court judgment was alleged…
19-885 Jamie Swartz, et ux. v. Heartland Equine Rescue, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment livestock livestock-seizure post-seizure-hearing pre-seizure-hearing rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 seizure subject-matter-jurisdiction Did the 7th Circuit err by finding the Rooker-Feldman doctrine applied?
19-862 William Castro v. R. Fred Lewis, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-09 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process due-process-rights federal-constitutional-claims federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 state-court-judgment subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars subject-matter jurisdiction in a federal district court over federal constitutional claims filed pursuant to …
19-552 William A. Salzwedel v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights constitutional-challenge disability-rights due-process equal-protection rehabilitation-act rooker-feldman-doctrine standing third-party-standing title-ii-ada Does an attorney have standing to challenge a state's adult conservatorship/guardianship practices?
19-516 Nolan Espinda, Director, Hawaii Department of Public Safety, et al. v. Royce C. Gouveia Ninth Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied appellate-deference appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review custody federal-district-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction federal-review habeas-corpus Hawai'i-sovereign-right manifest-necessity mistrial-declaration rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-judgments Did the Ninth Circuit err in concluding that the Rooker-Feldman doctrine is categorically not applicable to § 2241 petitions?
19-6263 Carlos Velasquez v. Utah, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-10-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-hearing appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court rooker-feldman-doctrine standing Were the constitutional claims barred by Rooker-Feldman doctrine?
19-479 Carol M. Kam v. John B. Peyton, Jr. Fifth Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) associate-judge judicial-authority judicial-misconduct probate-court probate-law rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-jurisdiction state-court-rulings state-law void-orders Does the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine apply to two Void 'proposed' State Court Rulings?
19-6112 In Re Larry Pouncy 2019-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP all-writs-act appellate-review breach-of-fiduciary-duty civil-rights due-process fiduciary-duty fraud intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress legal-malpractice mandamus-remedy pro-se-plaintiff rooker-feldman-doctrine stay-on-state-judgment writ-of-mandamus Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's state law claims against the defendants for legal malpractice, breach of fiduciary dut…
19-194 Daniel Delacruz, Sr. v. State Bar of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-14 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment noerr-pennington noerr-pennington-doctrine racial-discrimination rooker-feldman-doctrine Does a dismissal of claims based on the Rooker-Feldman doctrine and First Amendment rights under the Noerr-Pennington doctrine violate the equal prote…
19-31 Carol M. Kam v. Dallas County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) associate-judge dallas-county judicial-authority judicial-misconduct probate-court probate-court-procedure rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court state-court-jurisdiction state-law void-judgment void-rulings Does the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine apply to two void 'proposed' State Court rulings produced by a former Associate Judge, employed solely by Dallas Coun…
18-9750 John G. Curry v. Mark Joseph Lopez, Associate Judge, Circuit Court of Illinois, Cook County, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-06-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act civil-rights-violations constitutional-deprivation due-process federal-forum federal-jurisdiction judicial-immunity mandamus mandamus-relief rooker-feldman-doctrine standing Whether John G. Curry or someone similarly situated can be denied a federal forum, contrary to standards, by misapplication of doctrines, such as Rook…
18-1532 Timothy J. Johnston v. Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied civil-procedure due-process federal-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction privity rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-court-judgment state-court-judgments Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars a plaintiff from suing in federal court by claiming it was not a party to the earlier state court litigation,…
18-9073 Maurice Grayton v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction fraud rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-court-proceedings third-party Whether the state bar examination process violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by discriminating against a disabled veteran-examinee
18-1311 Cathy Cardillo v. Mark Neary, Clerk, Supreme Court of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied Response Waived adequate-notice attorney-rights constitutional-rights court-jurisdiction due-process exxon-mobil-v-saudi-basic-industries-corp hearing jones-v-flowers judicial-procedure legal-review middlesex-county-ethics-comm-v-bar-assn notice-requirement rooker-feldman-doctrine state-courts Can the Constitutional right to due process or 'adequate notice and a hearing' be ignored by the Courts below?
18-1290 Reed Kirk McDonald v. Arapahoe County, Colorado Tenth Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-attack colorado-law colorado-rule-120 due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction non-judicial-proceeding non-judicial-proceedings preclusion res-judicata rooker-feldman-doctrine rule-120 standing Whether a party who was not, and has never been named as an underlying party to any court proceedings for/against petitioner can invoke Rooker-Feldman…
18-1291 Linda Thurman, et al. v. Judicial Correction Services, Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied Amici (3)Response WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-district-courts judicial-review jurisdiction municipal-court private-probation probation-order rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-court-judgment void-ab-initio Whether Rooker-Feldman doctrine applies when the underlying state-court judgment is void ab initio
18-8509 Towaki Komatsu v. NTT Data, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2019-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP arbitration arbitration-impossibility civil-procedure civil-rights contractor-misclassification due-process equitable-relief federal-courts federal-jurisdiction financial-impossibility rooker-feldman-doctrine standing supplemental-jurisdiction younger-abstention younger-abstention-doctrine Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in affirming the judgment of the U.S. District Court
18-1205 Phillip B. Leiser, et al. v. Donald W. Lemon, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-03-18 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights declaratory-relief due-process federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 standing state-court-judgment state-court-judgments subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Rooker-Feldman abstention doctrine applies to deprive the lower federal courts of subject matter jurisdiction when a state-court loser, se…
18-1164 In Re Alan Giordani 2019-03-07 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court-procedure due-process first-amendment judicial-review property-rights right-to-petition rooker-feldman-doctrine second-amendment second-amendment-review special-master sua-sponte-review takings Whether the failure of the District Court to appoint a federal monitor or special master to review the matter was error
18-1113 Jeffrey Gray Thomas v. Laurie Zelon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-26 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-complaint district-court-dismissal due-process federal-circuit-court federal-jurisdiction free-speech judicial-precedent rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the dismissal of the federal civil rights complaint under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine
18-1095 Charles G. Kinney v. Frances Rothschild, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied attorney-fees bankruptcy bankruptcy-code-discharge-injunction bankruptcy-discharge bosse bosse-v-oklahoma constitutional-rights court-judgment creditor-rights discharged-debtor judicial-procedure personal-liability rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine unsecured-creditor Whether 11 U.S.C. Sec. 524(a)(1) and 11 U.S.C. Sec. 524(a)(2) void court judgments that determine a discharged Chapter 7 no asset' debtor still has pe…
18-1068 Raja Mittal v. County of Clark, Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied and in the absence of exigent circumstances violate Fourth-and-Fourteenth-Amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment juvenile-court parental-rights rooker-feldman-doctrine standing takings warrantless-removal Whether removal of a child from parent's custody without a judicial order or a warrant, and in the absence of exigent circumstances, violate Fourth an…
18-7894 Roszetta McNeill v. Wayne County Third Circuit Court, et al Sixth Circuit 2019-02-13 Dismissed IFP 7th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection fraud fraud-exception fraud-exception-rooker-feldman judicial-activism rooker-feldman-doctrine statute-of-limitations superintendent-control Is it appropriate to request 'Superintendent Control' from the higher courts (in accordance to Article 3, section 2 of the Constitution) when the lowe…
18-7924 Clifton Donell Lyles v. Angela Broach, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-courts fourth-circuit issue-preclusion judicial-procedure jurisdictional-bar rooker-feldman-doctrine standing Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err by allowing the Rooker-Feldman doctrine to be used to grant motion for issue preclusion?
18-1045 Nathaniel Brent, et al. v. Wayne County Department of Human Services, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment administrative-policy civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte-orders judicial-oversight qualified-immunity rooker-feldman-doctrine standing Plaintiffs' constitutional rights violated by administrative policy allowing probation officer to approve non-appealable, non-final, ex-parte orders w…
18-835 Mario R. Lozano v. Superior Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk County, et al. First Circuit 2019-01-03 Denied 11th-amendment 14th-amendment 14th-amendment-enforcement-clause 42-usc-1985-conspiracy 7th-amendment-jury-trial civil-rights congress due-process enforcement-clause fraud rooker-feldman-doctrine sovereign-immunity Does Congress have the authority to override the States' Sovereign Immunity under the 11th Amendment to the US Constitution?
18-6999 John McQueen v. Lynn Fisher Sixth Circuit 2018-12-12 Denied IFP circuit-court civil-procedure district-court-errors due-process exceptional-importance exxon-mobil-precedent exxon-mobil-v-saudi-basic federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-review jurisdiction rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine sixth-circuit-errors standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the District Court has subject matter jurisdiction to decide if Rooker-Feldman applies to cases filed in federal court before the state court …
18-6907 Robert J. Kulick v. Leisure Village Association, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2018-12-04 Denied Relisted (3)IFP anti-SLAPP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights defamation due-process equal-protection freedom-of-speech home-owners-association legal-procedure rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing Is 9th Cir's Case#18-56000, Dismissal, 11-29-18, null & void because of defective Defendant-Appellee, when correct was Leisure Village Association, In…
18-6743 Robert J. Kulick v. Leisure Village Association, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial free-speech hoa-governance legal-malpractice perjury rooker-feldman-doctrine standing Is the Rooker-Feldman doctrine constitutional when it fails to protect individual rights under the Constitution and the purpose of the U.S. Supreme Co…
18-595 James P. Tatten v. City and County of Denver, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-11-06 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights debt-collection due-process fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act foreclosure fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigation rooker-feldman-doctrine standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in creating a special pro se pleading standard for cognitively-disabled litigants
18-6529 Don Kozich v. Ann Deibert, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP anti-injunction-act civil-rights due-process federal-housing hud hud-vash landlord-tenant lihtc mootness-doctrine rooker-feldman-doctrine section-8 section-8-housing standing Whether the Rooker-Feldman and Mootness Doctrines and the Anti-Injunction Act apply to this unlawful tenant eviction case from Section 8 HUD-VASH HCV …
18-6509 John Tedesco v. Monroe County, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process heck-v-humphrey prosecutorial-immunity rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 standing younger-abstention Did Mr. Tedesco's complaint get dismissed with prejudice?
18-458 Lillian Pellegrini v. Fresno County, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-10-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 18-usc-1961 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-procedure-60b civil-rights color-of-law due-process fraud property-rights rooker-feldman-doctrine standing Can the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine bar federal court jurisdiction under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 60(b), 42 U.S.C. 1983, or 18 U.S.C. 1961 et seq.…
18-230 Robert Allen Richards, Jr. v. County of Los Angeles, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Response Waived bill-of-attainder canon-law child-support civil-procedure civil-rico civil-rights due-process paternity-fraud rooker-feldman-doctrine standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's case under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine in a civil RICO paternity fraud lawsuit involving f…
18-204 Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC v. Iris Pounds, et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-08-16 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction fraud independent-action independent-actions lack-of-jurisdiction rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-judgment state-court-judgments subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the Rooker-Feldman doctrine prohibit a federal district court from exercising jurisdiction over an independent action challenging the validity of…
18-152 Gregory Garmong v. Supreme Court of Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-06 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-complaint due-process exxon-mobil-precedent exxon-mobil-v-saudi-basic federal-jurisdiction judicial-review ninth-circuit rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983-complaint standing stare-decisis state-court-judgments Whether the Ninth Circuit may ignore and refuse to follow this Court's precedent in application of the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, which requires that th…
18-5424 Patsy N. Sakuma v. Association of Apartment Owners of the Tropics of Waikele, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1985 circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-claim due-process hypothetical-jurisdiction jurisdictional-waiver merits-question rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing sua-sponte waiver Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit properly applied waiver on appeal as a new exception to bypass the Rooker-Feldman jur…