Read KOUGASIAN v. TMSL, INC., 02-56781

The Rooker-Feldman doctrine does not bar subject matter jurisdiction when a federal plaintiff alleges a cause of action for extrinsic fraud on a state court and seeks to set aside a state court judgment obtained by that fraud. Because plaintiff asserts no legal error by the state court, the district court erred in dismissing her appeal on Rooker-Feldman grounds.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/05/2003
• Submitted 12/05/2003
• Decided 02/26/2004
• Published 02/26/2004

Judges

• Before PREGERSON, COWEN, and W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John W. Powell, Irvine, CA, for the appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Philip D. Weiss and Donald Ornelas, Jr., Agajanian, McFall, Weiss, Tetreault & Crist, Los Angeles, CA;  James G. Boedecker, Mill Valley, CA, for the appellees.