United States Tenth Circuit

For purposes of determining a state-court judgment's finality in the context of the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, if a lower state court issues a judgment and the losing party allows the time for appeal to expire, then the state proceedings have ended.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/20/2006
• Published 06/21/2006

Judges

• BRORBY, Circuit Judge., Before LUCERO, ANDERSON, and BRORBY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Submitted on the briefs:  Nancy Bear, Pro Se, Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Phill Kline, Attorney General, Steve Phillips, Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, Topeka, KS, for Defendant-Appellee.