Kougasian v. Tmsl, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Rooker- Feldman did not bar suit alleging extrinsic fraud by litigant in obtaining state court judgment
• explaining that “[e]xtrinsic 16 fraud is conduct which prevents a party from presenting his claim in court.”
• explaining that extrinsic fraud is “not an error by [a] court,” but instead is “a wrongful act committed by the party or parties who engaged in the fraud”
• finding that allegations of extrinsic fraud committed by adverse party on the state court was not a de facto appeal because it was not an error by the state court
• stating that the Rooker–Feldman doctrine also “prohibits a federal district court from exercising subject matter jurisdiction over a suit that is a de facto appeal from a state court judgment”
• finding that allegations of extrinsic fraud committed by adverse party on the state court was not a de facto appeal because it was not an error by the state court

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).