Stand with Arizona by John Hill

Judge Upholds Most of Alabama’s Tough Immigration Law (Victory on H.B. 56!) Posted by Arizona Tea Party on September 28, 2011 at 12:00pm by John Hill Stand with Arizona A Federal District Judge today upheld most of Alabama’s new immigration enforcement law, H.B. 56. This ruling meaning those provisions [...]

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The Rooker-Feldman Doctrine, in short, Federal Government has no jurisdiction to review state court judgments.

I. THE ROOKER-FELDMAN DOCTRINE At its most basic, the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, named after the two cases from which it sprung,12 is the principle that lower federal courts do not have jurisdiction to review state court judgments.13 It is based on the congressional grant, in 28 U.S.C. § 1257,14 of appellate [*pg 645] jurisdiction over state [...]

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