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ROOKER-FELDMAN AND OTHER DEADLY FEDERAL ABSTENTION
DOCTRINES
People blindly file Federal Lawsuits
because they "think" that Federal Court will cure their state court problems.
They don't bother to find out first what built-in roadblocks they will face.
By the time the Federal Court dismisses their case, it's usually too late, and
most still don't understand what happened. Federal Courts have limited jurisdiction,
as opposed to the general jurisdiction of a state Superior or District Court.
Only jurisdictional subjects authorized by Congress as statutes (such as 42
USC 1983) may be jurisdictionally viable in Federal Court. The Eleventh Amendment
to the US Constitution prohibits a State itself, or its officers and agencies,
in Federal Court. There are the ROOKER-FELDMAN, YOUNGER, BURFORD, DOMESTIC RELATIONS
and other well-known abstention doctrines.
