Another Rooker-Feldman Knockout: Federal Court Ends Post-Foreclosure Lawsuit
June 20, 2014
Coe v. Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 71912 (S.D. Ind. 2013) (.pdf) is the basis for my third post on the Rooker-Feldman doctrine. For more on the doctrine, and the other two opinions addressing it, click on: (1) Rooker-Feldman Doctrine: Dismissing A Borrower’s Post-Foreclosure Federal Court Case and (2) Borrower’s Federal Court Claims, Following State Court Foreclosure, Dismissed. Essentially, if a borrower's subsequent federal court action is "tantamount to a request to vacate the state court's judgment of foreclosure," then, as in Coe, the federal courts will bring a swift end to the borrower's case.