Legal Opinion
David Smith and Kimberly Smith v. Paul David Woosley
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 4, 2005No. Docket 03-9198PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JON 0. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge.
This appeal primarily concerns the authority of a district court to issue an injunction under the “relitigation exception” to the Anti-Injunction Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2283, to protect the judgment of another district court. The issue arises on an appeal by Defendant-Appellant Paul David Woosley from an order of the District Court for the District of Connecticut (Alvin W. Thompson, District Judge), denying his motion to amend a permanent injunction. The injunction barred Woosley from relitigating the validity of two Texas state court decrees, issued in 1992 and 1993,…
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