Legal Opinion
Davison v. Government of Puerto Rico-Puerto Rico Firefighters Corps
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided December 12, 2006No. 06-1613PublishedCited by 76 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs-appellants James W. Davison, his wife, Ana Victoria Davison, and the conjugal partnership formed by their marriage (collectively “Plaintiffs”) appeal the district court’s dismissal of their due process and equal protection claims against the various defendants for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. We affirm the district court’s decision that the Rooker-Feldman doctrine deprives the lower federal courts of subject matter jurisdiction over this case.
I. The Saga of the Terrace
The district court’s opinion below lays out the excruciating details of the…
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