Green v. Jefferson County Commission
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Non-Argument Calendar.
1Opinion of the Court
KRAVITCH, Circuit Judge:
In this case, Jefferson County employees challenge as unconstitutional and violative of federal law certain amendments made by the Jefferson County Commission to its retirement system. The district court dismissed the employees’ claims, finding that (1) the claims constituted a de facto appeal from a previous state court judgment which rejected similar arguments and that, therefore, under the Rook-er-Feldman 1 doctrine, the district court did not have jurisdiction to consider these claims; and (2) because the related state court judgment was on appeal to the Alabama…
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