Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Saudi Basic Industries Corp., No. 03-1696 (U.S. Supreme Court) (544 U.S. 280; 125 S.Ct. 1517) (March 30, 2005) (Justice Ginsburg)
In this case, the Supreme Court pared back the Rooker-Feldman doctrine to its core, holding that it "is confined to cases of the kind from which the doctrine acquired its name: cases brought by state-court losers complaining of injuries caused by state-court judgments rendered before the district court proceedings commenced ...
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