No. 18-1205
Phillip B. Leiser, et al. v. Donald W. Lemon, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Virginia, et al.
Tags: civil-procedure civil-rights declaratory-relief due-process federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 standing state-court-judgment state-court-judgments subject-matter-jurisdiction
Latest Conference:
2019-05-16
Question Presented (from Petition)
Whether the Rooker-Feldman ("R-F") abstention
doctrine applies to deprive the lower federal courts of
subject matter jurisdiction ("SMJ") when a statecourt loser,
seeking only declaratory
y (i.e.,
noncoercive)
relief, files a federal §
1983
complaint,
alleging
injury
resulting
from
a
state-court
judgment.
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether the Rooker-Feldman abstention doctrine applies to deprive the lower federal courts of subject matter jurisdiction when a state-court loser, seeking only declaratory relief, files a federal § 1983 complaint, alleging injury resulting from a state-court judgment
Docket Entries
2019-05-20
Petition DENIED.
2019-04-30
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/16/2019.
2019-03-13
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due April 17, 2019)
Attorneys
Phillip Leiser, et al.
Phillip B. Leiser — The Leiser Law Firm, Petitioner