United States Seventh Circuit

A suit alleging a conspiracy to violate a daughter's constitutional rights, by reporting false claims of child neglect, is not barred by the Rooker-Feldman doctrine where plaintiff had no reasonable opportunity to raise the claim in state court.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/13/2002
• Published 09/13/2002

Judges

• MANION, Circuit Judge., Before RIPPLE, MANION, and DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jerold S. Solovy (submitted), Jenner & Block, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• John W. Robertson (submitted), Stoerzbach Morrison RobertsonWilcox Alcorn, Galesburg, IL, William P. Rector (submitted), Bozeman, Neighbour, Patton & Noe, Moline, IL, Diane M. Potts (submitted), Office of Attorney General Civ. Appeals Div., Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.