Weekly v. Morrow
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
WIENER, Circuit Judge:
In this discovery dispute arising out of a worker’s compensation claim, Plaintiff-Appellant Edward Weekly appeals the district court’s dismissal of his suit to enjoin DefendanL-Appellee Sharon Morrow from seeking the issuance of a contempt citation against him for failing to produce Social Security documents. The district court declined to exercise jurisdiction over Weekly’s suit on grounds of Younger abstention. 1 As we hold that under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine the district court did not have jurisdiction over the instant case, we affirm that court’s judgment…
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- Palmore v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
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