Phillips Ex Rel. Green v. City of New York

How courts have described this case

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• finding that Family Court child removal order had become final for purposes of the Rooker-Feldman doctrine despite ongoing parental rights termination proceedings
• noting that prior to Exxon Mobil, the Second Circuit “had incorrectly interpreted Rooker-Feldman to encompass and even supersede ordinary preclusion principles”
• noting that prior to Exxon Mobil, the Second Circuit \had incorrectly interpreted Rooker-Feldman to encompass and even supersede ordinary preclusion principles\
• noting that prior to Exxon Mobil, the Second Circuit “had incorrectly interpreted Rooker-Feldman to encompass and even supersede ordinary preclusion principles”
• deliberate indifference could not be found based on agency’s failure to comply with “a contract describing duties and responsibilities undertaken by the foster parents,” rather than the agency.
• “[I]n the absence of a decision by the New York Court of Appeals, the rulings of New York’s intermediate appellate courts are at least of persuasive authority, but those of a state trial court are usually not binding precedent upon federal courts.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).