Legal Opinion

Casale v. Tillman

Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

Decided February 17, 2009No. 08-14432PublishedCited by 170 opinions

Non-Argument Calendar.

1Per curiam

Philip Casale appeals the dismissal of his complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. In that complaint, Casale asked the district court to enjoin his former wife, Martha Tillman, from domesticating several Georgia state court contempt orders in Alabama state court because those orders violated the Uniformed Services Former Spouses’ Protection Act (“FSPA”), 10 U.S.C. § 1408. Because the district court correctly found that it lacked subject matter jurisdiction under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, we affirm. 1

Casale and Tillman were divorced in 1991 by decree of the Superior Court of…

2Cases cited9 opinions

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  4. Lockhart v. FretwellSupreme Court of the United States · 1993
  5. Lance v. DennisSupreme Court of the United States · 2006

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