WHITEFORD v. REED

No. 97-3652.

155 F.3d 671 (1998)

John K. WHITEFORD, M.D., Appellant, v. John REED, Director of the Professional Liability Catastrophic Loss Fund; Daniel Kimball, Jr., M.D., Chairman of the Pennsylvania State Board of Medicine; Gerald Smith, Esq., Counsel for the State Board of Medicine, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided September 9, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John K. Whiteford, Murrysville, PA, Appellant, Pro Se

Before: BECKER, Chief Judge, STAPLETON and WEIS, Circuit Judges.


Submitted Pursuant to Third Circuit LAR 34.1(a) July 17, 1998.

OPINION OF THE COURT

STAPLETON, Circuit Judge.

Whiteford appeals the district court's dismissal of his complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine. Whiteford argues that Rooker-Feldman is inapplicable because no state court addressed the merits of his claims. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 because the district court...

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