United States Second Circuit

Dismissal of plaintiff's suit, alleging racial discrimination related to his employment termination, is affirmed with respect to his due process claim; however, dismissal of plaintiff's equal protection claim for lack of jurisdiction is reversed as the Rooker-Feldman doctrine does not prevent the exercise of federal jurisdiction over defendant's equal protection claims.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/27/2004
• Published 07/27/2004

Judges

• B.D. PARKER, JR., Circuit Judge., Before:  JACOBS, B.D. PARKER, Circuit Judges, BLOCK, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Lee Nuwesra, New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mordecai Newman, Assistant Corporation Counsel of the City of New York (for Michael A. Cardozo, Corporation Counsel) (Larry A. Sonnenshein, Assistant Corporation Counsel, on the brief), New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellee.