Legal Opinion
Exxon Mobil Corporation Exxon Chemical Arabia, Inc. Mobil Yanbu Petrochemical Company, Inc. v. Saudi Basic Industries Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided March 24, 2004No. 02-2130PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
AMBRO, Circuit Judge.
Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (“SABIC”) appeals from the District Court’s order denying its motion to dismiss, based on' sovereign immunity, the claims of two ExxonMobil subsidiaries, Mobil Yanbu Petrochemical Company (‘Yanbu”) and Exxon Chemical Arabia, Inc. (“ECAI”). We do not reach the foreign sovereign immunity question, however, because we determine that the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars federal subject matter jurisdiction over the subsidiaries’ claims, which have been already decided in state court.
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Facts and Procedural Posture
In 1980, SABIC…
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