United States Seventh Circuit

In a suit claiming civil-rights violations by defendant-county for its failure to determine before the fact that a parcel of land purchased by plaintiff in a tax sale was not in fact in delinquency, dismissal for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction is affirmed where: 1) the Rooker-Feldman doctrine applied to deny federal jurisdiction over an appeal of a state court decision; and 2) an additional claim under the Interstate Land Sales Full Disclosure Act was insubstantial and frivolous, and did not grant federal subject-matter jurisdiction.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/16/2008
• Decided 12/04/2008
• Published 12/04/2008

Judges

• RIPPLE, Circuit Judge., Before RIPPLE, EVANS and TINDER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Terri Smith Blanchard (argued) Barclay & Dixon, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant., David Johnson, Chicago, IL, pro se.


• For Appellees:
  
• Paul A. Castiglione (argued), Office of the Cook County State's Attorney, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.