United States Fourth Circuit

The Rooker-Feldman doctrine, which generally prevents lower federal courts from reviewing state court decisions, does not apply when the party asserting the claim in federal court was not a party to the state proceedings.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/08/2005
• Published 03/08/2005

Judges

• Before WIDENER, WILKINSON, and KING, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:Roger J. Marzulla, Marzulla & Marzulla, Washington, D.C., for Appellants.  Robert Holmes Hood, Hood Law Firm, L.L.C., Charleston, South Carolina, for Appellees.   ON BRIEF:  Nancie G. Marzulla, Marzulla & Marzulla, Washington, D.C., for Appellants.  Deborah Harrison Sheffield, Hood Law Firm, L.L.C., Charleston, South Carolina;  Charles M. Condon, South Carolina Attorney General, Nathan Kaminski, Jr., Senior Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General of south carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellees.