Case Name: Marsha CHAMBERS, and family, Plaintiff-Appellant v. The State of TEXAS; The SPCA of Texas Corporation; The County of Kaufman Texas, Defendants-Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2009-08-17
Citations: 331 F. App'x 294
Docket Number: No. 09-10320
Parties: Marsha CHAMBERS, and family, Plaintiff-Appellant v. The State of TEXAS; The SPCA of Texas Corporation; The County of Kaufman Texas, Defendants-Appellees.
Judges: Before HIGGINBOTHAM, CLEMENT, and SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 331
Pages: 294–295

Head Matter:
Marsha CHAMBERS, and family, Plaintiff-Appellant v. The State of TEXAS; The SPCA of Texas Corporation; The County of Kaufman Texas, Defendants-Appellees.
No. 09-10320.
Summary Calendar.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
Aug. 17, 2009.
Marsha Chambers, and Family, Kaufman, TX, pro se.
Kurt Allen Schwarz, Jackson Walker, Dallas, TX, for The SPCA of Texas Corporation.
Before HIGGINBOTHAM, CLEMENT, and SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Marsha Chambers appeals the district court's dismissal of her complaint asserting various claims against state officials and the SPCA. The underlying facts concern the seizure and state judicial forfeiture of animals from her property in 2004. The district court found that because it had alreadjr dismissed a previous, mostly identical, lawsuit brought by Chambers, the current suit was barred by the doctrines of claim and issue preclusion.
Chambers's voluminous filings do nothing to demonstrate any error by the district court. It is true that these preclusive doctrines do not bar a second suit in which a jurisdictional defect that caused the first suit to be dismissed has been corrected, but here, the first suit was dismissed by virtue of the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, as Chambers effectively sought review of the state-court forfeiture order in federal court. See Oreck Direct, LLC v. Dyson, Inc., 560 F.3d 398, 401 (5th Cir.2009). Filing a renewed suit under the same theory in the same federal court could not correct this defect, and the proper means for disputing whether Rooker-Feldman was correctly applied by the district court would have been to appeal from the first lawsuit, not bring a new one in district court.
Substantially for the reasons given by the district court, the dismissal of Chambers's complaint is AFFIRMED. Her motions to stay the district court's sanction order and fee award, certify a question to the Texas Supreme Court, and file an appendix to her reply brief are DENIED.
Pursuant to 5th Cir. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5th Cir. R. 47.5.4.