state-court-judgment

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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…
25-867 Joseph Walters, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections v. Christopher Coleman Fourth Circuit 2026-01-21 Pending aedpa de-novo-review fourth-circuit habeas-corpus party-presentation state-court-judgment 1. Whether the Fourth Circuit violated the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) and the party-presentation principle by granting habe…
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 …
24-1254 City of Palestine, Texas, et al. v. Union Pacific Railroad Company Texas 2025-06-09 Denied constitutional-interpretation iccta-preemption interstate-commerce retroactive-application separation-of-powers state-court-judgment Whether the Texas Supreme Court erred in retroactively applying the Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act's preemption provisions to a final …
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…
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…
24A571 Belinda Jones v. Jeremy Howard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-12-11 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure pro-se-petition state-court-judgment Whether the district court and appellate courts properly applied federal habeas corpus standards in reviewing the state court's denial of petitioner's…
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…
24A142 Terry Royal, Warden, et al. v. William Witter Ninth Circuit 2024-08-07 Presumed Complete aedpa federal-review habeas-corpus magwood-exception second-successive-petition state-court-judgment Whether a state court judgment modifying a ministerial error in a criminal judgment constitutes a 'new judgment' that allows a petitioner to file a se…
24A63 Robert James Rainey v. Colorado Colorado 2024-07-18 Presumed Complete certiorari companion-case federal-jurisdiction state-court-judgment supreme-court-review time-extension Whether the Colorado Supreme Court's decision in a companion criminal case raises a substantial federal constitutional question warranting Supreme Cou…
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
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…
23-930 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 …
23-841 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 …
21-1278 Judy Wright v. May 27, 2011 Order, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-03-22 Denied civil-procedure coram-non-judice diversity-jurisdiction due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-question in-rem-complaint judicial-bias judicial-neutrality standing standing-doctrine state-court-judgment Does a petitioner require proof of harm to have standing to challenge a judgment by a judge with an appearance of undermined neutrality?
21-7026 Nehemias Samayoa v. United States District of Columbia 2022-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-withdrawal civil-rights coercion dual-sovereignty due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel federal-jurisdiction indigent-defendant standing state-court-judgment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel requires a court to appoint new counsel to represent an indigent defendant who wi…
21-6959 Kenneth J. Cox v. Ed Caley, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2022-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP AEDPA constitutional-rights federal-law jurisdiction procedural-default representation-right SAOC-elements sentence-enhancement sentence-enhancers state-court-judgment state-prisoner state-prisoners-claim Whether the jurisdiction of this court is invoked under 28-U.S.C.-1257(a)
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
21-743 Donald Lempar v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-11-18 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2254 custody custody-definition federal-district-court federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus sex-offender-registration state-court state-court-judgment Whether a habeas corpus petitioner who is subject only to sex offender registration requirements when he or she filed his or her petition is 'in custo…
21-607 Maura Lee Wahlberg, Individually and as Trustee of the Grever-Burke Trust Agreement v. Roy Grever Florida 2021-10-26 Denied extrinsic-fraud fraud full-faith-and-credit interstate-judgment intrinsic-fraud judicial-fraud legal-preclusion procedural-comity sister-state-judgment state-court state-court-judgment Does the Full Faith and Credit Clause permit a state court refuse to give a sister state's judgment full faith and credit based on its belief that the…
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
20-1317 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…
20-1273 Franek Olstowski v. Petroleum Analyzer Company, L.P. Fifth Circuit 2021-03-15 Denied arbitration arbitration-award bankruptcy federal-court federal-procedure full-faith-and-credit judicial-proceeding state-court state-court-judgment trade-secret Whether state-court judgments confirming arbitration awards, including state-court orders clarifying such judgments, are 'judicial proceedings' entitl…
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
20-490 Damien Freeman v. Lyneal Wainwright, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-10-15 Denied aedpa circuit-split federal-habeas final-judgment habeas-corpus habeas-petition resentencing state-court-judgment statute-of-limitations Whether the statute of limitations for filing a habeas petition begins when the new judgment entered following resentencing becomes final
20-5551 Ohio, ex rel. Jeremy Kerr v. Robert Pollex, et al. Ohio 2020-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-sufficiency jurisdiction state-court state-court-judgment subject-matter-jurisdiction sufficiency-of-evidence Does a state court's judgment of conviction violate the 14th Amendment when the record is devoid of evidence proving the defendant committed an elemen…
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…
19-1287 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
19-1153 Russell A. Suzuki, et al. v. Christopher Deedy Ninth Circuit 2020-03-20 Denied 28-usc-1257 appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure double-jeopardy exxon-mobil-v-saudi-basic federal-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction lesser-included-offense lesser-included-offenses standing state-court-judgment state-court-judgments Limits on federal court jurisdiction to review state court judgments
19-7815 Robert Grimsley v. Oregon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied IFP civil-rights contractual-leniency custody due-process fraud fraud-in-the-facts habeas-corpus prison prison-contracts prisoner-rights sentencing sentencing-guidelines state-court state-court-judgment statutory-interpretation takings Can a state commit the crimes of fraud in the facts of its own sentencing guidelines to renege on prison contracts on behalf of a person in custody pu…
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…
19-7403 Theodore C. Shove v. Ron Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-01-24 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP capital-case constitutional-rights criminal-violations due-process federal-constitution habeas-corpus judicial-oath law-enforcement prosecution state-constitution state-court-judgment state-exhaustion statutory-demand us-constitution Whether a criminal judgment obtained through violations of state and federal constitutions and laws by law enforcement and prosecution qualifies for h…
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 …
19-537 Jeffrey G. Thomas v. Norman Solomon, et al. California 2019-10-24 Denied 501(c)(3)-preemption bankruptcy-automatic-stay bankruptcy-stay civil-procedure collateral-estoppel due-process frivolous-appeal monetary-sanctions new-york-times-v-sullivan public-interest standing state-court-judgment Whether a Judgment of a State Court Violates the Automatic Stay in Bankruptcy
19-6122 Jermaine Stevenson v. Jeffrey Woods, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied IFP actual-innocence due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review newly-discovered-evidence presumption-of-innocence state-court-judgment void Can a habeas corpus petitioner that is presumed guilty pursuant to a state court judgment make a showing of actual innocence with newly discovered evi…
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…
18-7815 Shea Pascal Dease v. Virginia Virginia 2019-02-07 Denied IFP civil-judgment civil-procedure due-process service-of-process standing state-court-judgment state-law statutory-interpretation Did the state maintain a civil judgment for which it did not serve process in the manner required by its own statute?
18-845 Scott M. Seidel v. Century Surety Company Fifth Circuit 2019-01-04 Denied bankruptcy constitutional-principles crime due-process federal-declaratory-judgment imputation insurance-coverage judicial-review state-court-judgment tort-facts Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in imputing a crime to the defendant without any evidence or trial, in violation of due process
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…