Legal Opinion
Jackson v. Office of the Mayor of the Dist. of Columbia
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided December 28, 2018No. 17-7056PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Karen LeCraft Henderson, Circuit Judge:
In 2010, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals Committee on Admissions ("Committee") denied Clarence Jackson's application to sit for the D.C. Bar Examination ("Bar"). Since then, Jackson has challenged that decision and, in turn, the handling of his challenge. His case reached the federal district court in 2016. The district court dismissed his complaint based on three alternative doctrines: the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, the Younger abstention doctrine and the doctrine of res judicata . Because none of the three doctrines applies, we reverse.
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