Legal Opinion

Eric Noel v. Brian C. Hall Sandra A. Hall, Fka Sandra Johnson, and Gabrielle S. Lennartz Herb Weisser Michelle A. Merchant

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Decided September 2, 2003No. 00-35988PublishedCited by 801 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

WILLIAM W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge.

Eric Noel and Sandra and Brian Hall are no strangers to the inside of a courtroom. This lawsuit is the fifth between Noel and Sandra Hall, and the second between Noel and Brian Hall. In this suit, Noel brought ten claims.

The district court dismissed one of Noel’s claims against the Halls for lack of subject matter jurisdiction under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine. We reverse this dismissal. The district court dismissed Noel’s nine other claims against the Halls as claim-precluded, on the ground that they should have been asserted as compulsory counterclaims in…

2Cases cited57 opinions

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