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25-961 Peyman Roshan v. Christine M. Searle, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-02-13 Pending constitutional-challenge due-process federal-district-court rooker-feldman state-court-jurisdiction tax-sale Does a federal district court lack jurisdiction under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine where a state-court loser of a challenge of a tax sale of the loser'…
25-6754 Kendrick Simpson v. Christe Quick, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2026-02-09 Denied IFP eleventh-amendment ex-parte-young federal-civil-rights rooker-feldman section-1983 state-procedural-rule Whether Rooker-Feldman and the Eleventh Amendment jurisdictionally bar a § 1983 challenge to a state procedural rule announced in a state court decisi…
25A574 Peyman Roshan v. Christine M. Searle, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-11-17 Application constitutional-taking federal-jurisdiction foreclosure-dispute intervention-rights rooker-feldman state-court-judgment Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars federal court review of state court foreclosure judgments when a plaintiff alleges constitutional violations …
25-463 Clean Air Car Service & Parking Branch Three, LLC v. Clean Air Car Service & Parking Branch Two, LLC, et al. Second Circuit 2025-10-16 Denied bankruptcy-jurisdiction bankruptcy-sale good-faith-purchaser rooker-feldman subject-matter-jurisdiction ucc-sale Whether the Bankruptcy Court has subject matter jurisdiction over a bankruptcy petition when an independent claim challenges the managing member's aut…
25-197 T. M. v. University of Maryland Medical System Corporation, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-08-19 Granted Amici (3)Relisted (2) appellate-procedure doctrine-interpretation federal-jurisdiction judicial-review rooker-feldman state-court Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine can be triggered by a state-court decision that remains subject to further review in state court
25-172 Mark Mazza, et ux. v. Bank of New York Mellon, fka The Bank of New York, as Trustee for the Certificateholders of the CWALT, Inc., Alternative Loan Trust 2006-0A10 Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates Series 2006-0A10 Third Circuit 2025-08-13 Denied Relisted (2) appellate-review counterclaims due-process ejectment rooker-feldman summary-judgment Whether the Third Circuit applied incorrect standards in affirming summary judgment and dismissing counterclaims, and whether the Rooker-Feldman doctr…
25-5310 Maurice Bernard Moore v. Daniel L. Hebert, former District Judge, Saline County of Kansas, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-08-08 Denied IFP collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights double-jeopardy habeas-corpus rooker-feldman sovereign-immunity Whether the Tenth Circuit's ruling conflicts with the Third Circuit on the Rooker-Feldman Provision and preclusion doctrine regarding state court conv…
25-5221 Anna Gristina v. Juan Merchan, former New York State Judge, et al. Second Circuit 2025-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-claims federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman state-court-proceedings younger-abstention Whether the Younger abstention doctrine requires federal court abstention from state court civil proceedings seeking criminal case transcripts, and wh…
24-1284 Eugene Dingle v. Leslie Armstrong, Individually and as Guardian ad Litem of Dorchester County Family Court, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-06-16 Denied constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-review rooker-feldman state-court Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars federal courts from reviewing state family court decisions where the petitioner alleges egregious violations …
24-7363 Wesley-Keith Mullings v. Harriet Elaine Raghnal, et al. Third Circuit 2025-06-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP circuit-split due-process institutional-manipulation parental-rights pro-se-litigants rooker-feldman Whether a circuit split exists regarding Rooker-Feldman doctrine's application to void judgments and whether institutional manipulation violates due p…
24-1157 Taylor Packwood, et al. v. County of Contra Costa, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-12 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure domestic-relations due-process federal-jurisdiction fraud-exception rooker-feldman Whether there is a fraud exception to the Rooker-Feldman doctrine in domestic relations cases raising claims of a violation of due process of law
24-7116 Keziah Thayer v. Vermont Department for Children and Families, DCF, et al. Second Circuit 2025-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights damages-claim due-process federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman state-court-judgment Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars a federal court from hearing a parent's claim for damages arising out of a State's violations of the parent's…
24A837 Mark Mazza, et ux. v. Bank of New York Mellon, fka The Bank of New York, as Trustee for the Certificateholders of the CWALT, Inc., Alternative Loan Trust 2006-0A10 Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates Series 2006-0A10 Third Circuit 2025-02-28 Presumed Complete circuit-split ejectment-judgment fraud-exception property-rights rooker-feldman supreme-court-rules Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine's application in federal courts creates an impermissible barrier to reviewing state court judgments involving pote…
24-697 Terry J. Clark v. Debra Anne Taylor, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-12-31 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction case-preclusion district-court federal-procedure legal-doctrine rooker-feldman What are the standards and exceptions to the Rooker-Feldman doctrine in appellate courts
24-80 Eliezer Taveras v. U.S. Bank National Association, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-25 Denied claim-splitting due-process federal-jurisdiction procedural-removal removal rooker-feldman state-law state-law-claims Does the removal of a case from state to federal court, under allegations of fraudulent procedural conduct by the defendants and when the principal cl…
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 …
23-6972 Jeremy Lynn Kerr v. Keith Lenz, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-03-13 Denied IFP civil-procedure collateral-attack due-process federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction res-judicata rooker-feldman standing state-court-judgment subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether Rooker-Feldman bars a collateral attack on a void ab initio state court judgment
23-986 Joseph Daryll Rued, et al. v. Charlene W. Hatcher, Judge, Hennepin County, Minnesota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-03-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) access-to-venue association child-welfare children's-welfare civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment natural-parents rooker-feldman unlawful-confinement Did the Eighth Circuit err in affirming the District Court's Order and denying Petitioners' petition for rehearing en banc?
23-6913 Carl Thompson v. Marjorie K. Allard, Chief Judge, Court of Appeals of Alaska, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion circuit-court civil-procedure complaint-amendment federal-courts futile-amendment futility-standard judicial-discretion procedural-review rooker-feldman standing Was there a violation of the Rooker-Feldman doctrine?
23A798 John Seely v. James Seely, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-02-29 Presumed Complete due-process extrinsic-fraud federal-lawsuit fourteenth-amendment rooker-feldman state-court-judgment Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine permits a federal lawsuit seeking damages for alleged extrinsic fraud that resulted in an adverse state court judg…
23-841 Emily Evans, et al. v. City of Ann Arbor, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-02-06 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fraud perjury rooker-feldman rule-60d state-court-judgment Whether a federal court had the authority and obligation to vacate a state court judgment obtained through perjury suborned by the prevailing party's …
23-770 John Doe v. Bill Crouch, in His Official Capacity as Cabinet Secretary of the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response Waived constitutional-challenge equal-protection federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction redressability rooker-feldman standing state-court Does Rooker-Feldman bar jurisdiction when declaring a statute unconstitutional would undermine a state court's reliance upon the statute?
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…
23-6315 In Re Miguel Antonio Garcia 2023-12-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-rights due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements lower-court-interpretation precedent-analysis res-judicata rooker-feldman standing Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the case based on the Rooker-Feldman doctrine
23-6266 Jeremy Lynn Kerr v. Robert Pollex, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment civil-rights collateral-attack due-process federal-review rooker-feldman subject-matter-jurisdiction void-ab-initio Whether the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine bars a collateral attack on a void ab initio state court judgment rendered without subject matter jurisdiction
23-603 Jeffrey Gray Thomas v. California Department of Justice, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-12-05 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy bankruptcy-law civil-rights due-process federal-taxation fraud free-speech judicial-misconduct rooker-feldman state-court-sanctions taxation Does Rooker-Feldman cutoff Petitioner's attack on fraudulent inducement to the state courts to enter fraudulent orders of sanctions against him, based…
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
22-7884 Theresa Marshall v. Educational Credit Management Group, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-06-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP bankruptcy civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman standing Whether Rooker-Feldman bar prevents federal district court or US court of appeals jurisdiction to hear, rule, and/or remand in a complaint case, conce…
22-7704 Theresa Marshall v. Wells Fargo & Company, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-06-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP bankruptcy due-process federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman standing state-court-ruling Whether Rooker-Feldman bar prevents federal district court or US court of appeals jurisdiction to hear, rule, and/or remand in a complaint case, conce…
22-6889 Annamalai Annamalai v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP and if so attorney-fees civil-discovery civil-rights" Res-Judicata Rooker-Feldman-doctrine whether the Federal Rule of Civil Procedure attorney-fees civil-procedure discovery hyde-amendment res-judicata rooker-feldman Whether the Hyde Amendment Attorney fees Award is 'Civil
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?
22-552 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
22-59 Paul Nunu v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-07-21 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment ab-initio constitutional-challenge due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction first-amendment privileges-or-immunities rooker-feldman state-court-judgments void-ab-initio Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars inferior Federal Courts from voiding State Court judgments that are void ab initio under State and Federal la…
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…
21-1374 Floyd Chodosh, et al. v. John Saunders, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-04-22 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-455 civil-procedure disqualification due-process federal-jurisdiction fraud-on-the-court judicial-misconduct procedural-due-process rooker-feldman Whether Petitioners' procedural due process rights were violated
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
21-1034 Peter Kagel v. Jay Laurence Raftery, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-24 Denied 14th-amendment americans-with-disabilities-act constitutional-vagueness due-process federal-jurisdiction fraud issue-preclusion rooker-feldman vagueness Should the 'Inextricably Intertwined' doctrine be abolished?
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…
21-703 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…
21-5289 Gregory Moore, Individually, and on Behalf of J. M., et al. v. County of Orange, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-04 Denied IFP child-seizure civil-rights due-process federal-funds fourth-amendment fraud res-judicata rooker-feldman standing warrant-requirement Whether Rooker-Feldman should be uniformly applied across federal districts
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…
20-1118 Robert Grundstein v. Lamoille Superior Docket Entries/Orders, et al. Second Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-review due-process federal-jurisdiction fraud rooker-feldman standing state-court-review void-ab-initio Should the Circuit Splits with respect to the Rooker-Feldman Fraud Exception be reconciled in favor of the exception?
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?
20-6546 John C. Nimmer v. Michael G. Heavican, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Nebraska, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-12-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-discipline civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment privileges-and-immunities rooker-feldman separation-of-powers standing Does the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bar a 42 USC 1983 claim when a facial challenge is pled?
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 …
20-329 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 …
20-59 Charles R. Campbell v. Hollie Bennett, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-07-23 Denied Relisted (2) due-process equal-protection family-court family-rights right-to-counsel rooker-feldman self-incrimination sixth-amendment state-actor state-bar Right to Counsel for Defence
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 …
19-1326 E. Thomas Scarborough, III v. Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Northampton County, et al. Third Circuit 2020-06-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) access-to-court civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-crimes parental-rights rooker-feldman section-1983 standing Whether District Court has jurisdiction over state deprivation of federal rights, under the color of state law
19-8427 Dillard James McNeley v. Sheppard, Mullin, Richter and Hampton LLP, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-misconduct civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process extrinsic-fraud fraud-upon-court rooker-feldman section-664.6 standing state-court-judgment Did the District Court err in denying McNeley Request for an Evidentiary Hearing Motions in light of the 5th and 14th Amendment constitution rights vi…
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…
19-938 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…
19-7339 Victor O. Jones, Jr. v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-01-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-violations due-process foreclosure fraud pro-se-litigation res-judicata rooker-feldman standing takings Whether a litigant who has been repeatedly violated can come to Federal Court for protection and relief when the state courts no longer adhere to stat…
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 …
19-743 Curtis T. Hill, Jr., Attorney General of Indiana, et al. v. Whole Woman's Health Alliance, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-12-11 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 14th-amendment abortion abortion-clinic-licensing civil-rights due-process federal-injunction fourteenth-amendment hypothetical-patient-rights licensing rooker-feldman sovereign-immunity standing state-agency-review third-party-standing undue-burden May a corporation that has been denied a state license to open a new abortion clinic assert the Fourteenth Amendment rights of hypothetical future pat…
19-5632 T. A., et al. v. Howard B. Leff, et al. Second Circuit 2019-08-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-violations domestic-relations-exception due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-immunity quid-pro-quo racketeering rooker-feldman standing sua-sponta-fiduciaries Is it error to impose judicial immunity when the pleadings detail that NYS Judge and sua sponta appointed Part 36 Fiduciaries acted without jurisdicti…
19-5090 Frances Du Ju v. Washington, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 28-usc-2283 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 7th-amendment 8th-amendment absolute-immunity judgment-on-the-pleadings malicious-prosecution quasi-judicial-immunity re-examination-clause amendment-violation civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judgment-on-pleadings judgment-on-the-pleadings judicial-immunity malicious-prosecution rooker-feldman Whether the District Court's Rooker-Feldman doctrine, Judgment on the Pleadings, and 'copy and paste' to dismiss this Malicious Prosecution case commi…
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,…
18-1291 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
18-1205 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…
18-8248 Hersy Jones, Jr. v. Supreme Court of Louisiana, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights default-judgment disbarment due-process judicial-review recusal rooker-feldman section-1983 standing Does Rooker Feldman bar a disbarred attorney from seeking damages and equitable relief under Sec. 1983
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
18-8085 Steven Clayton Thomason v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP anti-trust antitrust beacon-theatres beacon-theatres-inc.-v.-westover civil-procedure constitutional-procedure due-process jury-trial restraint-of-trade rooker-feldman standing whether-the-right-to-a-jury-trial-wherein-anti-trust-issues-are-before-the-court-in-a-restraint-of-trade-conflict-with-u.s.-supreme-court-holding-in-b…
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…
18-980 Bismark Kwaku Torkornoo v. Maryland, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process equal-protection estoppel fourteenth-amendment fraud res-judicata rooker-feldman Whether the District Court's decisions based upon estoppel to dismiss petitioner's civil lawsuit against the State of Maryland violate the Constitutio…
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…
18-390 Sandra Pletos, et vir v. Makower Abatte Guerra Wegner Vollmer, PLLC , et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-09-26 Denied Response Waived abuse civil-rights concealment contract contractual-rights debt-collection due-process fraud fraud-concealment homeowners-association rico-act rooker-feldman Whether Rooker-Feldman can be used to prevent parties from asserting their contractual rights, and new independent claims for relief based on statutes…
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…
25A897 Kendrick Simpson v. Christe Quick, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit Denied due-process eleventh-amendment equal-protection execution-stay judicial-access rooker-feldman Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine and Eleventh Amendment improperly bar a state prisoner's federal court challenge to state court procedural violati…