Case Name: Raymond FELDMAN; et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The Honorable Patti Jo MCKAY; et al., Defendants-Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2017-01-26
Citations: 676 F. App'x 713
Docket Number: No. 15-56958
Parties: Raymond FELDMAN; et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The Honorable Patti Jo MCKAY; et al., Defendants-Appellees.
Judges: Before: TROTT, TASHIMA, and CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 676
Pages: 713–714

Head Matter:
Raymond FELDMAN; et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The Honorable Patti Jo MCKAY; et al., Defendants-Appellees.
No. 15-56958
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted January 18, 2017
Filed January 26, 2017
Raymond Feldman, Law Offices of Raymond Feldman, Valencia, CA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants
Sarah Lee Overton, Attorney, Cummings McClorey Davis Acho and Associates, Riverside, CA, for Defendants-Appel-lees
Before: TROTT, TASHIMA, and CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges.
The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Plaintiffs appeal pro se from the district court's judgment dismissing their 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging federal and state law claims in connection with plaintiffs' state court unlawful detainer proceedings. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo. a dismissal under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, Noel v. Hall, 341 F.3d 1148, 1154 (9th Cir. 2003), and we affirm.
The district court properly dismissed plaintiffs' action for lack of subject matter jurisdiction under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine because their claims constituted a forbidden "de facto appeal" of a prior, final state court judgment. See id. at 1163 ("It is a forbidden de facto appeal under Rooker-Feldman when the plaintiff in federal district court complains of a legal wrong allegedly committed by the state court, and seeks relief from the judgment of that court."); see also Mothershed v. Justices of Supreme Court, 410 F.3d 602, 604 n.1 (9th Cir. 2005) (state court proceedings "ended for Rooker-Feldman purposes" upon state supreme court's denial of a request for writ of mandamus). We reject as unsupported by the record plaintiffs' contention that defendants issued a void order in state court proceedings that precluded the application of Rooker-Feldman.
Contrary to plaintiffs' contention, the district court's order granting the motion to dismiss did not violate the law of the case doctrine because the issues presented in that motion had not already been decid ed by the district court or a higher court. See Ctr. for Biological Diversity v. Salazar, 706 F.3d 1085, 1090 (9th Cir. 2013) (law of the case doctrine pertains to reconsideration of "an issue that has already been decided by the same court or a higher court in the same case." (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)).
AFFIRMED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3.