Rachel Marran Claudia Librett v. Michael Marran Montgomery County Office of Children and Youth Montgomery County, Pa

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Rooker-Feldman prevents “relitigating in federal court the issues decided in a state court”
• noting that privity is “merely a word used to say that the relationship between one who is a party on the record and another is close enough to include that other within the res judicata”
• collecting cases and holding that “[e]ven if a child is not a party to a custody action her federal claims will be barred if the child is in privity with the named parties (her parents)”
• collecting cases and holding that “[e]ven if a child is not a party to a custody action her federal claims will be barred if the child is in privity with the named parties (her parents)”
• “federal courts should abstain from enjoining state criminal prosecutions because of principles of comity and federalism, unless certain extraordinary circumstances exist.”
• a constitutional claim may be independent, even if it has an effect on the state determination

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).