Deswert, L. v. Wawa, of: RJ Reynolds

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that to be applicable, Rooker-Feldman requires a state court judgment, and “an effort to ‘review’ that judgment, namely to ‘undo’ or ‘overturn’ it” in the federal action
• holding that to be applicable, Rooker-Feldman requires a state court judgment, and “an effort to ‘review’ that judgment, namely to ‘undo’ or ‘overturn’ it” in the federal action
• noting that “it would be odd for § 1983 to create a right that sovereign immunity immediately takes away”
• noting that “it would be odd for § 1983 to create a right that sovereign immunity immediately takes away”
• explaining that Rooker-Feldman prohibits federal courts from “undo[ing]” or “overturn[ing]” state-court judgments in a new federal-court action (cleaned up)
• concluding that a Tennessee environmental court was not a “person” subject to suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, in part because it would be “difficult to understand why § 1983 would create a right to sue an entity that could always assert immunity from suit”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).