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The Most Interesting Supreme Court Opinion Line-Up You Will See This Year

Leave it to the Rooker-Feldman doctrine to divide the justices in an unusual way.

Jonathan H. Adler | 6.18.2026 10:42 AM

Today the Supreme Court decided T.M. v. University of Maryland Medical System Corp., a case concerning the application of the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, under which federal district court review of state court decisions is generally barred.

The justices split 5-4 on the application of the doctrine here. Justice Sotomayor wrote for the Court. She summarized the issue in T.M. this way:

Under what has become known as the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, federal district courts lack jurisdiction over "cases brought by state-court losers complaining of injuries caused by state-court judgments rendered before the........

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