No. 20-1317

Holly MacIntyre v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

Lower Court: Tenth Circuit
Docketed: 2021-03-23
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: attorneys-fees civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction fraud fraud-damages monetary-relief rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-judgment
Key Terms:
Environmental Securities Immigration
Latest Conference: 2021-05-13
Question Presented (from Petition)

Whether a plaintiff in a diversity case who seeks monetary relief — for damages emanating from the defendant's fraud in procuring a state-court judgment — thereby triggers application of the Rooker-Feldman doctrine because he is "necessarily" seeking federal review and rejection of the judgment itself, despite the fact the requested relief would leave the judgment in full force and effect.

Whether a federal court, which would have been sitting in diversity if not for a federal jurisdictional doctrine inapplicable in the state judiciary, may nonetheless invoke the state's fee-shifting statute to award attorneys' fees against the federal plaintiff, and may do so admittedly without ever having had subject matter jurisdiction.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a plaintiff in a diversity case who seeks monetary relief — for damages emanating from the defendant's fraud in procuring a state-court judgment — thereby triggers application of the Rooker-Feldman doctrine

Docket Entries

2021-05-17
Petition DENIED. Justice Gorsuch took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.
2021-04-27
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/13/2021.
2021-04-26
Waiver of right of respondent JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. to respond filed.
2021-03-18
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due April 22, 2021)

Attorneys

Holly MacIntyre
Holly MacIntyre — Petitioner
JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A.
Ronald TomassiLeon Cosgrove, LLP, Respondent