District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman, 460 U.S. 462 (1983), was a case decided by the United States Supreme Court in which the Court enunciated a rule of civil procedure known as the Rooker-Feldman doctrine (also named for the earlier case of Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Co., 263 U.S. 413 (1923). The doctrine holds that lower United States federal courts may not sit in direct review of state court decisions.
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