United States First Circuit

In plaintiffs' constitutional challenge to the state's removal of their child after termination proceedings and motion for injunctive relief to prevent a foster family's adoption of the child, district court's dismissal of the case is affirmed where: 1) the district court correctly determined that it lacked subject matter jurisdiction to review plaintiffs' motion for injunctive relief to prevent the child's adoption pursuant to the Rooker-Feldman doctrine; and 2) the factual issues underlying plaintiffs' claims were addressed by the state court and are barred by issue preclusion.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/04/2009
• Published 11/04/2009

Judges

• LYNCH, Chief Judge., Before LYNCH, Chief Judge, TORRUELLA and BOUDIN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Eric H. Mehnert with whom Hawkes & Mehnert, LLP, were on brief for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Melissa Reynolds O'Dea, Assistant Attorney General, with whom Janet T. Mills, Attorney General of Maine, and Paul Stern, Deputy Attorney General, were on brief for the appellees.