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3rd Circ. Confirms Limits Of The Rooker-Feldman Doctrine

By Steven Wilamowsky and Sara Ghadiri ( January 22, 2018, 4:00 PM EST) -- On Jan. 11, 2018, the Third Circuit issued a decision in In re Philadelphia Entertainment & Development Partners[1] that limited the reach of the Rooker-Feldman doctrine as a defense to bankruptcy avoidance actions. The court's reasoning, however, has implications that go well beyond the particular facts of the case and may limit the use of the Rooker-Feldman doctrine as a threshold defense in federal court litigation more broadly, whether in bankruptcy cases or otherwise....

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