Struck v. Cook County Public Guardian

How courts have described this case

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• holding that because plaintiff was not his mother’s guardian, he lacked standing to sue on her behalf
• holding that, where guardianship proceedings were ongoing, district court lacked jurisdiction over suit against a court‐appointed guardian challenging the guardian’s treatment of plaintiff’s mother
• finding that the domestic relations exception and the Rooker- Feldman doctrine barred a son’s lawsuit challenging an appointment of a guardian for his mother
• applying the probate exception because the probate court was still tasked with supervising the legal guardian of the res at issue
• federal courts must refrain from exercising jurisdiction over claims that would interfere with domestic-relations issues that belong in state court
• federal courts must refrain from exercising jurisdiction over claims that would interfere with domestic-relations issues that belong in state court

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).