Patricia G. Staley v. James G. Ledbetter, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Commissioner of Dept. Of Human Resources

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a district court lacked jurisdiction to review a county agency’s decision that had been upheld by the state court of appeals
• holding that the Rooker Feldman doctrine bars federal district courts from reviewing a state court’s child custody determination
• holding that “no federal subject matter jurisdiction existed . . . [because, in] effect, Staley seeks to challenge collaterally the state agency and court proceedings that terminated her parental rights”
• holding district court lacked jurisdiction to review a county agency’s decision that had been upheld by the state court of appeals
• “The federal courts are not a forum for appealing state court decisions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).