United States Ninth Circuit

District court's dismissal of an inmate's suit challenging a state court's denial of his request to obtain additional DNA testing is affirmed where: 1) the district court properly dismissed the complaint under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine because the federal courts lacked subject matter jurisdiction over the inmate's first claim, which sought federal relief from the state court's determination in the DNA proceeding, and over the second and third claims, which were inextricably intertwined with the first; and 2) the district court did not err in implicitly denying the inmate's request to amend the complaint.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/27/2012
• Published 12/27/2012

Judges

• McKeown

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel