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Amina SHEIKHANI, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. WELLS FARGO BANK, et al., Defendants-Appellees.
    No. 14-1954.
    United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.
    Submitted Aug. 28, 2014.
    
    Decided Aug. 29, 2014.
    Amina Sheikhani, Aurora, IL, pro se.
    Michael R. Kemock, Berton Jordan Ma-ley, Codilis & Associates, P.C., Burr Ridge, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.
    Ira T. Nevel, Chicago, IL, pro se.
    Before DIANE P. WOOD, Chief Judge, FRANK H. EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge and KENNETH F. RIPPLE, Circuit Judge.
    
      
       After examining the briefs and record, we have concluded that oral argument is unnecessary. Thus, the appeal is submitted on the briefs and record. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2)(C).
    
   ORDER

In an earlier case, Amina Sheikhani’s husband (purportedly acting as her “nominee”) sued Wells Fargo Bank under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, see 15 U.S.C. §§ 1692-1692p, and Illinois common law. The suit challenged a state foreclosure judgment that had led to the sale of Sheikhani’s house. The district court dismissed that case for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine. See Dist. of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman, 460 U.S. 462, 486, 103 S.Ct. 1303, 75 L.Ed.2d 206 (1983); Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Co., 263 U.S. 413, 416, 44 S.Ct. 149, 68 L.Ed. 362 (1923). We upheld the dismissal. Sheikhani v. Wells Fargo Bank, 526 Fed.Appx. 705 (7th Cir.2013). Five months later Sheikhani herself sued Wells Fargo and several additional defendants, once more invoking § 1983 and the FDCPA. Concluding that Sheikhani again sought to challenge the foreclosure judgment, the district court applied Rooker-Feldman and dismissed the suit. Sheikha-ni moved for leave to amend her complaint, but the court denied her request as futile.

Sheikhani appeals from that denial, asserting that the district court abused its discretion by not allowing her to amend her complaint. But the court was right that Rooker-Feldman blocks federal suits that attack state-court judgments, see Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Saudi Basic Indus. Corp., 544 U.S. 280, 284, 125 S.Ct. 1517, 161 L.Ed.2d 454 (2005); Arnold v. KJD Real Estate, LLC, 752 F.3d 700, 704-05 (7th Cir.2014), and Sheikhani does not dispute that her suit mounts such an attack. Her briefs on appeal, and the amended complaint she wants to file, aim squarely at the foreclosure judgment. She contends, based on alleged “breaches” of a pooling and servicing agreement, that “[t]he Foreclosing entity was not the true owner of the loan” and that it lacked standing to foreclose. Rooker-Feldman puts that dispute outside the district court’s jurisdiction.

Affirmed.