Nicholson v. Shafe

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that Rooker-Feldman did not apply where the state court proceeding had not ended
• holding state proceedings have ended for purposes of Rooker-Feldman when an appeal from the state court judgment is completed
• concluding an alternative jurisdictional holding set forth in a footnote at the end of a prior opinion was “not dicta”
• stating that “lower federal courts are precluded from exercising appellate jurisdiction over final state-court judgments”
• stating that, for Rooker-Feldman to apply, the state-court proceedings “must have ended” when the federal action was filed
• applying abuse of discretion standard to review sanctions imposed under Rule 11 and 28 U.S.C. § 1927

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).