Legal Opinion

Warner v. Brown

Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Decided November 14, 2016No. 16-3136PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

ORDER

Ede Warner, a divorced father of two children, appeals (on jurisdictional grounds) the dismissal of his suit against prosecutors in Kentucky and Indiana whom, he believes, acted improperly in connection with the enforcement of a child-support order. The district court dismissed Warner’s claims for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction based on the “domestic-relations exception” or alternatively on Warner’s attempt to seek review of a state court’s order. We modify the judgment to reflect dismissal for failure to state a claim rather than lack of jurisdiction, and as modified we affirm.

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2Cases cited18 opinions

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