Opinion
No. 08-2156.
Submitted: October 6, 2009.
Filed: October 8, 2009.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota.
Michael O'Grady, Portage, WI, pro se.
Catherine Mcpherson, Anoka County Attorney's Office, Anoka, MN, Joseph E. Flynn, Susan Steffen Tice, Jardine Logan, Lake Elmo, MN, Roy Habeck, c/o James Habeck, Shawano, WI, John Steven Garry, Attorney General's Office, Thomas Arthur Gilligan, Nicholas John O'Connell, Jr., Murnane Brandt, Patrick Henry O'Neill, Stephen M. Warner, II, O'Neill Murphy, St. Paul, MN, David Charles Rice, Wisconsin Department of Justice Office of the Attorney General, Madison, WI, Sarah Thomas Pagels, Michael David Rosenberg, Whyte Hirschboeck, Milwaukee, WI, Katherine A. Mcbride, Barbara A. Zurek, Meagher Geer, Minneapolis, MN, for Appellees.
Daniel L. Overbey, Wausau, WI, pro se.
Before BYE, BOWMAN, and BENTON, Circuit Judges.
[UNPUBLISHED]
Michael O'Grady appeals the district court's order dismissing as Rooker-Feldman barred his complaint alleging wrongs stemming from his 1997 divorce, custody, and support proceedings. The dismissal order also required O'Grady to obtain permission from the Chief Judge of the United States District Court of the District of Minnesota before filing in that court any future action containing similar allegations. Upon review, we find no basis for reversal. See Skit Int'l, Ltd. v. DAC Tech. of Ark., Inc., 487 F.3d 1154, 1156-57 (8th Cir. 2007) (de novo review of district court's dismissal for lack of subject matter jurisdiction; Rooker-Feldman doctrine prohibits lower federal courts from exercising appellate review of state-court judgments); cf. Sassower v. Carlson, 930 F.2d 583, 584 (8th Cir. 1991) (per curiam) (enjoining vexatious litigant from filing civil actions in Minnesota district court without first obtaining leave). Accordingly, the judgment of the district court is affirmed. See 8th Cir. R. 47B.
The Honorable Michael J. Davis, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the District of Minnesota, adopting the report and recommendations of the Honorable Susan Richard Nelson, United States Magistrate Judge for the District of Minnesota.
See Rooker v. Fid. Trust Co., 263 U.S. 413, 44 S.Ct. 149, 68 L.Ed. 362 (1923); Dist. of Columbia Ct. of Appeals v. Feldman, 460 U.S. 462, 103 S.Ct. 1303, 75 L.Ed.2d 206 (1983).