Legal Opinion
Tyler v. Supreme Judicial Court of Mass.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided January 28, 2019No. 18-1256PPublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KAYATTA, Circuit Judge.
This appeal arises from Heather Tyler's six-year-long legal battle to void two Massachusetts Superior Court conditions of probation imposed on the adult male who was convicted of statutory rape after impregnating her when she was a minor. The district court found that Tyler's suit was, in essence, an appeal from a state-court judgment, and that the district court therefore lacked jurisdiction to hear it under the Rooker - Feldman doctrine. For the following reasons, we agree.
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In 2009, at age nineteen or twenty, Jamie Melendez impregnated fourteen-year-old Heather Tyler.…
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