Eric Noel v. Brian C. Hall Sandra A. Hall, Fka Sandra Johnson, and Gabrielle S. Lennartz Herb Weisser Michelle A. Merchant

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• holding that district courts may not hear “forbidden de facto appeals” in which federal plaintiffs attempt to seek relief from an erroneous state court decision
• noting that “[bjecause [plaintiff] has not brought a forbidden de facto appeal from any of the earlier state court judgments, the ‘inextricably intertwined’ analysis ... does not apply”
• holding that federal district courts lack “subject matter jurisdiction to hear a direct appeal from the final judgment of a state court” and “[t]he United States Supreme Court is the only federal court with jurisdiction to hear such an appeal”
• explaining that Rooker-Feldman does not bar jurisdiction over an action in which a federal plaintiff complains of a legal injury caused by an adverse party
• noting that the doctrine applies when a plaintiff “seeks to vacate or set aside the judgment of” a state court
• explaining that Rooker- Feldman doctrine bars a de facto appeal of a state court decision or claims “inextricably intertwined” with that decision

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).