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How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• applying Rooker-Feldman to claim that state court erred by refusing to compel arbitration
• defining an interlocutory order as “one which does not finally determine a cause of action but only decides some intervening matter pertaining to the cause, and which requires further steps to be taken in order to enable the court to adjudicate the cause on the merits”
• “The timing of the filing of the complaint in federal court is a relevant consideration, but it is not outcome determinative.”
• “Under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, a party losing in state court is barred from seeking what in substance would be appellate review of the state judgment in a United States district court. We regard the doctrine as jurisdictional.”
• “Under the Rooker–Feldman doctrine, a party losing in state court is barred from seeking what in substance would be appellate review of the state judgment in a United States district court. We regard the doctrine as jurisdictional.”
• “A litigant may not circumvent these jurisdictional mandates by instituting a federal action which, although not styled as appeal, ‘amounts to nothing more than an attempt to seek review of [the state court’s] decision by a lower federal court.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).