United States Tenth Circuit

Dismissal of plaintiff's complaint alleging constitutional violations in Oklahoma's family court system is affirmed but remanded for modification of the dismissal to be without prejudice where, although federal jurisdiction was not barred by the Rooker-Feldman doctrine as the district court had found, jurisdiction was barred by the Younger abstention doctrine.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/19/2006
• Published 12/20/2006

Judges

• TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judge., Before TYMKOVICH, ANDERSON, and BALDOCK, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Submitted on the briefs:   Raymond G. Chapman, Pro Se.


• For Appellees:
  
• Gregory Thomas Metcalfe, Assistant Attorney General, Oklahoma Attorney General's Office, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, for Defendants-Appellees.