Legal Opinion
Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Saudi Basic Industries Corp.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 30, 2005No. 03-1696PublishedCited by 4,643 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Ginsburg
This case concerns what has come to be known as the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, applied by this Court only twice, first in Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Co., 263 U. S. 413 (1923), then, 60 years later, in District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman, 460 U. S. 462 (1983). Variously interpreted in the lower courts, the doctrine has sometimes been construed to extend far beyond the contours of the Rooker and Feldman cases, overriding Congress’ conferral of federal-court jurisdiction concurrent with jurisdiction exercised by state courts, and superseding the ordinary application of preclusion law…
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