Legal Opinion
Kamilewicz v. Bank of Boston Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 8, 1996No. 96-1019PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge.
A class action in Alabama cost Dexter Kamilewicz $91.33 in attorney fees to recover $2.19 on the merits. When he learned of this news, he and the other plaintiffs (his wife and Martha Preston) sued the class action attorneys (as well as certain defendants in the Alabama action) in the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. There, to add to their chagrin, they ran up against another obstacle — the Rooker-Feldman doctrine. This is their appeal from an order dismissing their federal case for lack of subject matter jurisdiction.
Kamilewicz and the…
2Cases cited14 opinions
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- District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. FeldmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
- Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1924
- Phillips Petroleum Co. v. ShuttsSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- Gash Associates v. Village of Rosemont, IllinoisCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1993
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