ROOKER¨CFELDMAN DOCTRINE

ROOKER¨CFELDMAN DOCTRINE

Rooker¨CFeldman doctrine. The rule that a federal court cannot consider claims actually decided by a state court or claims inextricably intertwined with an earlier state-court judgment. Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Co., 263 U.S. 413, 415¨C16, 44 S.Ct. 149, 150 (1923); District of Columbia Ct. of App. v. Feldman, 460 U.S. 462, 476, 103 S.Ct. 1303, 1311 (1983). ? This doctrine precludes ¡°a party losing in state court … from seeking what in substance would be appellate review of [a] state judgment in a United States district court, based on the losing party’s claim that the state judgment itself violates the loser’s federal rights.¡± Johnson v. De Grandy, 512 U.S. 997, 1005¨C06, 114 S.Ct. 2647, 2654 (1994).
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