Leanda Chaffins v. Shannon Sharp, et al.

Whether a federal court may abstain under Younger v. Harris.. 401 U.S. 37 (1971) from exercising jurisdiction over claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging constitutional violations—including the warrantless seizure of a child—that occurred before any state judicial proceedings were initiated, based solely on laterfiled state custody or termination proceedings. Whether federal jurisdiction is barred under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, over claims seeking damages for independent constitutional violations by state officials, where the plaintiff does not seek review of a state-court judgment, but instead challenges pre-judgment conduct.