Daggett v. Key
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
Invoking 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1985, John Daggett sued his late mother’s former guardian, a real estate agent, and a state judge for claims arising from a judicial sale of his mother’s property and for conspiring to deny him a hearing on those claims. The district court, reading the plaintiffs complaint as an attempt to obtain review of a state court’s proceedings, dismissed the action for lack of subject matter jurisdiction under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine. We affirm on the basis of Rooker-Feldman and for other jurisdictional reasons.
*722According to Daggett’s complaint and its…
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