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Phillip B. Leiser, et al. v. Donald W. Lemon, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Virginia, et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, No. 18-1829 · judgment December 13, 2018

Certiorari denied · May 20, 2019
Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Question presented

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 (i.e., noncoercive) relief, files a federal § 1983 complaint, alleging injury resulting from a state-court judgment.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Phillip B. Leiser
The Leiser Law Firm

For respondent
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Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. May 20 2019
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Apr 30 2019
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/16/2019.
  3. Mar 13 2019
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due April 17, 2019)