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Gabriel Cassell Plaintiff - Appellant v. The County of Ramsey; Ramsey County District Court Administration; Ramsey County Guardian Ad Litem Program; Ramsey County Child Support Enforcement; Susan Gaertner, Ramsey County Attorney; Attorney Autumn Tomkins; Joan Fitzgerald; Chief Judge Kathleen Gearin; Judge John T. Finley; Judge Ste

PER CURIAM

Appeal from United States District Court for the District of Minnesota - Minneapolis
[Unpublished]

Before LOKEN, BOWMAN, and COLLOTON, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM.

Gabriel Cassell appeals the district court's judgment granting defendants' motions to dismiss his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action, and denying as moot his motion for a preliminary injunction. Following careful review, we conclude that Cassell's complaint, which sought to overturn state-court rulings made in the course of five years of child custody and support litigation, was properly dismissed. 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 under Rooker-Feldman doctrine, which prohibits lower federal courts from exercising appellate review of state-court judgments); Fielder v. Credit Acceptance Corp., 188 F.3d 1031, 1035-36 (8th Cir. 1999) (generally no fraud exception to Rooker-Feldman); see also Middlesex County Ethics Comm. v. Garden State Bar Ass'n, 457 U.S. 423, 431-32 (1982) (no federal interference with pending state judicial proceedings absent extraordinary circumstances).

The Honorable John R. Tunheim, United States District Judge for the District of Minnesota, adopting the report and recommendations of the Honorable Tony N. Leung, United States Magistrate Judge for the District of Minnesota.

See Dist. of Columbia Ct. of Appeals v. Feldman, 460 U.S. 462 (1983); Rooker v. Fid. Trust Co., 263 U.S. 413 (1923).
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Accordingly, we affirm. See 8th Cir. R. 47B.

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Cassell v. Cnty. of Ramsey
(Nov 7, 2012)