United States Eighth Circuit

In an action claiming that a university's refusal to allow plaintiff control over the disposition of embryos created by plaintiff and her ex-husband violated her constitutional rights and breached an implied contract, dismissal of the action is affirmed where plaintiff's claims complained of injuries caused by state-court judgments rendered before the district court proceedings commenced, and thus the action was barred by the Rooker-Feldman doctrine.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/02/2010
• Published 04/02/2010

Judges

• PER CURIAM., Before RILEY, Chief Judge,WOLLMAN, and MELLOY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Richard Christopher Madison, argued, Little Rock, AR, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• John Jarrod Russell, argued, for appellee Dr. Jackson O. Lay., Elizabeth Smith, argued, Little Rock, AR (Jeffrey Alan Bell, on the brief) for Defendants-Appellees.