HULSEY v. CISA

No. 18-2014.

947 F.3d 246 (2020)

Paul H. HULSEY; Hulsey Law Group LLC, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Frank M. CISA; Cisa & Dodds LLP; Pinnacle Bank, Successor in Interest to Southcoast Community Bank; Robert A. Daniel, Jr.; Lawton Limehouse, Sr.; Lawton Limehouse, Jr.; WLL LLC; Richard B. Homes; L&L Services LLC; Richard B. Homes, CPA, LLC, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: January 17, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Phillip Russel Myles , Samuel Fraser Reid, III , MCDOWELL KNIGHT ROEDDER & SLEDGE LLC, Mobile, Alabama, for Appellants. Marcus Angelo Manos , NEXSEN PRUET, LLC, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: G. Robert Blakey , NOTRE DAME LAW SCHOOL, Paradise Valley, Arizona, for Appellants. Cherie K. Durand , HULSEY LAW GROUP, LLC, Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, for Appellant. Paul H. Hulsey . Michael B. McCall, II , EARHART OVERSTREET LLC, Charleston, South Carolina, for Appellees Frank M. Cisa and Cisa & Dodds, LLP. Joseph C. Wilson, IV , PIERCE, SLOAN, WILSON, KENNEDY & EARLY LLC, Charleston, South Carolina, for Appellee Lawton Limehouse, Jr.   Russell G. Hines , Stephen L. Brown , YOUNG CLEMENT RIVERS, LLP, Charleston, South Carolina, for Appellees Richard B. Homes and Richard B. Homes , CPA, LLC. Justin Kahn , KAHN LAW FIRM, Charleston, South Carolina, for Appellees Lawton Limehouse, Sr. , WLL LLC, and L&L Services LLC.

Reversed and remanded by published opinion. Judge Rushing wrote the opinion, in which Judge King and Judge Floyd joined.


In this case, we decide whether the district court properly applied the Rooker-Feldman doctrine to dismiss this federal action alleging misconduct by litigants in two lawsuits previously tried in state court. We reverse and remand, concluding that the Rooker-Feldman doctrine does not apply.

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