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EXXON MOBIL CORP. v. SAUDI BASIC INDUSTRIES CORP.

No. 03-1696.

544 U.S. 280 (2005)

EXXON MOBIL CORP. ET AL. v. SAUDI BASIC INDUSTRIES CORP.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 30, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory S. Coleman argued the cause for petitioners. With him on the briefs were Christian J. Ward, James W. Quinn, David Lender, and Andrew S. Pollis.

Gregory A. Castanias argued the cause for respondent. With him on the briefs were Lawrence D. Rosenberg, William K. Shirey II, and Kenneth R. Adamo.*

GINSBURG, J., delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court.

JUSTICE GINSBURG delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case concerns what has come to be known as the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, applied by this Court only twice, first in Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Co., 263 U.S. 413 (1923), then, 60 years later, in District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman, 460 U.S. 462 (1983). Variously interpreted in the lower courts, the doctrine...

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