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NICHOLSON v. SHAFE

Nos. 08-11426, 08-13058.

558 F.3d 1266 (2009)

Jeanette C. NICHOLSON, Ph.D., an individual, Career Assessment Atlanta, Inc., a Georgia Corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. James C. SHAFE, an individual, Career Training Concepts, Inc., a Georgia Corporation, Sales and Management Training Institute of Atlanta, a previous Georgia Corporation, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

February 18, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert M. Ward, Ashish D. Patel, Myers & Kaplan Intellectual Property Law, LLC, Atlanta, GA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Roger Scott Sumrall, Sean Lamar Gill, Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover, P.C., Atlanta, GA, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before WILSON and COX, Circuit Judges, and FAWSETT, District Judge.

WILSON, Circuit Judge:

This appeal calls upon us to address the scope of the Rooker-Feldman1 doctrine, which provides that "lower federal courts are precluded from exercising appellate jurisdiction over final state-court judgments." Lance v. Dennis, 546 U.S. 459, 463, 126 S.Ct. 1198, 163 L.Ed.2d 1059 (2006). The Supreme Court has only applied the Rooker-Feldman doctrine as a bar to jurisdiction...

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