Sarah Fitzpatrick Mandel v. Town of Orleans

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• noting that courts are divided but declining to decide the issue
• noting that the Rooker-Feldman doctrine is “premised on the rule that . . . only the U.S. Supreme Court has authority to invalidate state civil judgments. . . . The doctrine is widely used by the federal court[s] to prevent end-runs around state judgments.”
• “Although res judicata doctrine would often achieve similar effects, Rooker-Feldman ... is widely used by the federal court to prevent end-runs around state judgments.”
• “[T]he courts are divided as to whether the [domestic-relations exception] is limited to diversity claims and this court has never decided that issue.”
• “[The domestic relations] exception prohibits federal courts from issuing or altering divorce, alimony, and child custody decrees.”
• “[T]he domestic relations exception to federal court jurisdiction . . . prohibits federal courts from issuing or altering ‘divorce, alimony, and child custody decrees,’” (quoting Ankenbrandt v. Richards, 504 U.S. 689, 703 (1992))

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