Gilbert v. Illinois State Board of Education

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the Rooker-Feldman doctrine forbids a federal district court from reversing, “as a practical matter,” a state appellate court’s judgment
• the Rooker-Feldman doctrine “ prevents a state-court loser from bringing suit in federal court in order to effectively set aside the state-court judgment”
• “[I]n general, the successor judge is discouraged from 5 reconsidering the decisions of the transferor judge.”
• the Rooker-Feldman doctrine “prevents a state-court loser from bringing suit in federal court in order to effectively set aside the state-court judgment’
• the Rooker-Feldman doctrine “ prevents a state-court loser from bringing suit in federal court in order to effectively set aside the state-court judgment”
• the Rooker-Feldman doctrine “prevents a state-court loser from bringing suit in federal court in order to effectively set aside the state-court judgment”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).