Brizan v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the plaintiff’s suit did not implicate the domestic relations except where he did “not seek to alter an in rem custody award or to undo a divorce decree”
• holding that a judge who inserted herself into a case proceeding before another judge acted in the clear absence of jurisdiction because she didn’t have “at least a modicum of authority over matters arising from [the] case”
• holding that the exception “[applies] to both federal-question and diversity suits.”
• finding that a judge “acted in the clear absence of jurisdiction” when she “gratuitously inserted herself into a case proceeding before another judge”
• explaining that Rooker-Feldman does not apply if “the state court had not rendered a judgment before the district court proceedings began”
• explaining that the domestic-relations exception to federal jurisdiction “appl[ies] to both federal-question and diversity suits”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).