Legal Opinion
Klimowicz v. Deutsche Bank Nat'l Trust Co.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided October 19, 2018No. 17-1916PPublishedCited by 80 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
In this appeal, we are asked to revisit a case in which the plaintiff fought tooth and nail in the Massachusetts state courts and lost. Displeased by the result of the state-court proceedings, she repaired to the federal district court and sought to have that court address essentially the same grievances. The district court rejected her importunings, and the plaintiff now appeals. Concluding, as we do, that Supreme Court case law divests federal courts of subject-matter jurisdiction in such circumstances, see D.C. Court of Appeals v. Feldman , 460 U.S. 462 , 482, 103…
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