Bryant v. Sylvester
United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
57 F.3d 308 (1995)
- Written by Jennifer Flinn, JD
Facts
A state trial court in Pennsylvania approved the closing on certain dates of a court-operated supervised visitation center. Parents whose visitation with their children was restricted to the supervised visitation center filed a lawsuit to prevent the visitation center from closing on certain dates. The closing was ultimately upheld by the state trial court. Parents (plaintiffs) then filed a class-action lawsuit in federal district court arguing that the closing of the visitation center violated their constitutional rights. The visitation center (defendant) filed a motion to dismiss, arguing, among other things, that the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, which protects state-court decisions from review by federal courts, required that the case be dismissed. The district court denied the visitation center’s motion, and the visitation center appealed.
Rule of Law
Issue
Holding and Reasoning (Lewis, J.)
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