Abbott v. Michigan

How courts have described this case

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• affirming the district court’s dismissal of the plaintiffs’ ERISA claims on the basis of the Rooker-Feldman doctrine and res judicata
• noting that “the proper course of action” when a plaintiff complains of an injury directly caused by a state-court judgment “is to appeal the judgment through the state-court system and then to seek review by writ of certiorari from the U.S. Supreme Court.”
• In claim preclusion analysis, a federal court “must give the same effect to a state court judgment that would be given by a court of the state in which the judgment was rendered.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).