Doe v. Mann

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• holding that ICWA creates federal question jurisdiction and authorizes courts to invalidate state court judgments in limited arenas
• holding that, through ICWA, “Congress explicitly authorized federal courts to invalidate state court judgments in this limited area [of Indian child dependency and custody judgments].”’
• noting that the fact that the State is a party “does not transform what is an adjudicatory proceeding involving private parties into a regulatory proceeding”
• explaining that a federal district court must 22 refuse to hear a forbidden appeal of a state court decision under Rooker-Feldman
• noting that although Congress may 6 authorize federal district courts to review and invalidate state court judgments, federal 7 statutes granting such authority are “rare but obvious”
• finding “Rooker–Feldman applies 3 where the plaintiff in federal court claims that the state court did not have jurisdiction to 4 render a judgment”

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