United States Second Circuit

Appellant's claim under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act is inextricably intertwined with a state court default judgment in a debt collection action (and a motion to vacate it), and appellant had ample opportunity to raise this claim before the state court, thus the Rooker-Feldman doctrine therefore bars federal review.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/08/2001
• Decided 05/08/2002
• Published 05/09/2002

Judges

• MINER, Circuit Judge., Before: KEARSE, MINER, and F.I. PARKER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Joanne S. Faulkner, New Haven, CT, for Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross-Appellee., Linda Strumpf, New Canaan, CT, for Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants.