Mann v. Boatright

How courts have described this case

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• holding that plaintiffs’ prayer for permanent enjoinment of allegedly unconstitutional probate order barred by Rooker-Feldman
• holding that a plaintiff must “state [his] claims intelligibly so as to inform the defendants of the legal claims being asserted”
• holding that a plaintiff makes a complaint unintelligible “by scattering and concealing in a morass of irrelevancies the few allegations that matter”
• holding that a claim for a declaratory judgment, which sought nullification of a probate court’s orders, is “precisely the type[] of claim[] encompassed by the Rooker-Feldman doctrine”
• recognizing “courts have long recognized a common-law right of access to judicial records,” and citing Nixon v. Warner Commc’ns, 435 U.S. 589, 597 (1978)
• explaining that it is not a “district court’s job to stitch together cognizable claims for relief from [a] wholly deficient pleading”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).