263 U.S. 413 (1923), 295, Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Company
| Docket Nº: | No. 295 |
| Citation: | 263 U.S. 413, 44 S.Ct. 149, 68 L.Ed. 362 |
| Party Name: | Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Company |
| Case Date: | December 10, 1923 |
| Court: | United States Supreme Court |
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Motion to dismiss or affirm submitted November 26, 1923
APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
FOR THE DISTRICT OF INDIANA
Syllabus
1. Where a judgment has been rendered, after due hearing, by a state trial court, with jurisdiction of the subject matter and parties, and affirmed by the state supreme court, the only resort under the
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legislation of Congress for correction of errors in deciding questions involving the Constitution is to the appellate jurisdiction of this Court. P. 415.
2. The district court has no jurisdiction of a suit brought there by the party who was defeated in the state court against his successful opponent, all citizens of the same state, to set aside the judgment a void because of errors alleged to have been committed by the state courts in deciding constitutional questions. P. 416.
3. A judge is not disqualified to sit in a case involving the duties of a corporation under a conventional trust merely because of being one of the executors and trustees to whom shares of stock in corporations holding property under like trusts have passed for administration and disposal under a will. P. 417.
Affirmed.
Appeal from a decree of the district court which dismissed a bill for want of jurisdiction.
VANDEVANTER, J., lead opinion
MR. JUSTICE VAN DEVANTER delivered the opinion of the Court.
This is a bill in equity to have a judgment of a circuit court in Indiana, which was affirmed by the supreme court of the state, declared null and void, and to obtain other relief dependent on that outcome. An effort to have the judgment reviewed by this Court on writ of error had failed because the record [44 S.Ct. 150] did not disclose the presence of any question constituting a basis for such a review. Rooker v Fidelity Trust Co., 261 U.S. 114. The parties to the bill are the same as in the litigation in the state court, but with an addition of two defendants whose presence does not need special notice. All are citizens of the same state. The grounds advanced for resorting to the district court are that the judgment
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was rendered and affirmed in contravention of the contract clause of the Constitution of the United States and the due process of...
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