United States Sixth Circuit

Dismissal of pro se prisoner's civil rights action against fourteen judges and justices of various Tennessee courts in their official capacities is affirmed in part and vacated in part where: 1) contrary to the ruling below, the Rooker-Feldman doctrine does not apply to plaintiff's facial constitutional challenge to Tennessee statutes governing collateral review; but 2) an as-applied challenge was barred under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/18/2008
• Published 03/18/2008

Judges

• Before: MARTIN and NORRIS, Circuit Judges;  STAMP, District Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• ON BRIEF:  John E. Carter, Mountain City, Tennessee, pro se.