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· 4/15/2003

Ballinger v. Culotta

Citations

  • 322 F.3d 546

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  • holding the Rooker-Feldman doctrine prohibits a lawsuit brought in federal district court alleging a state court wrongly decided custody issues and unconstitutionally infringed on the plaintiff’s rights
  • a federal district court lacks jurisdiction to consider a claim which “in effect constitutes a challenge to a state court decision”
  • \We may affirm the district court's judgment on any ground supported by the record.\
  • a federal district court lacks jurisdiction to consider a 3 See generally Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Co., 263 U.S. 413, 416 (1923), and District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman, 460 U.S. 462, 482 (1983

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