Krause
Krause v. George
Opinion
Lead Opinion
MEMORANDUM **
Waltraud Krause appeals the district court’s dismissal of her 42 U.S.C. § 1983 *368 actions alleging violation of her constitutional rights to due process, trial by jury, and access to the courts. 1 We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291 , and we affirm.
We reject Krause’s contention that the Rooker-Feldman doctrine does not apply because the state court judgments at issue are void and the state court proceedings were not judicial in nature. Federal district courts may exercise only original jurisdiction; they have no authority to review the final determinations of state courts in judicial proceedings. 2 Because the district court would have to reverse the state court judgments to grant the relief sought by Krause’s complaints, her “1983 claim[s] amount[ ] to nothing more than an impermissible collateral attack on prior state court decisions.”
Krause’s § 1983 actions do not fit within the exception to the Rooker-Feldman doctrine for general constitutional challenges either. 4 To support her claims of deprivation of due process, Krause relies on specific rulings in her state court cases in which the judicial defendants allegedly misapplied the law.…