United States Fourth Circuit

The district court properly applied the Rooker-Feldman doctrine when dismissing plaintiff insurer's motion to compel arbitration, where plaintiffs' federal complaint sought to reverse the state court's decision and send the defendants' coverage claims to arbitration.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/16/2003
• Published 07/16/2003

Judges

• Before TRAXLER and SHEDD, Circuit Judges, and BEAM, Senior Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:Stephan Isaiah Voudris, Jorden Burt, L.L.P., Miami, Florida, for Appellants.  Thomas Clark Schultz, Wheeling, West Virginia, for Appellees. ON BRIEF:  Markham R. Leventhal, Jorden Burt, L.L.P., Miami, Florida;  John Preston Bailey, Bailey, Riley, Buch & Harman, L.C., Wheeling, West Virginia;  Kevin S. Burger, Margolis Edelstein, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for Appellants.  Don A. Yannerella, Wheeling, West Virginia, for Appellees.