T. M. v. University of Md. Medical System Corporation · ¶116

Finally, the Court insists that drawing the line at finality would “needlessly complicate the Rooker-Feldman analysis” because “[i]t is not always straightforward to determine whether a given state-court judgment is a reviewable final judgment under §1257(a).” Ante, at 17. But the line must be drawn somewhere, and there is no reason to think that drawing it at “judgment,” as the Court does, is any more manageable. We apply the finality test with little trouble; surely lower courts can do the same.

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