United States Ninth Circuit

In a challenge to California's Vexatious Litigant Statute, the district court erred in dismissing plaintiff's suit for lack of subject matter jurisdiction under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/14/2004
• Decided 12/14/2004
• Published 12/14/2004

Judges

• Before: T.G. NELSON, W. FLETCHER, and BERZON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Brian J. Murray, Jones Day, Washington, D.C.;  Burton H. Wolfe, San Francisco, CA, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jill Theresa Bowers, Office of the California Attorney General, Sacramento, CA;  Jonathan U. Lee, City Attorney's Office of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, for the defendants-appellees.