T. M. v. University of Md. Medical System Corporation · ¶85

Nothing relevant has changed since 1875. See Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. v. Locomotive Engineers, 398 U. S. 281, 286 (1970). Thus was the state of the law before Rooker. 263 U. S., at 416; Act of Mar. 3, 1911, §§24–27, 36 Stat. 1091–1094; Act of Sept. 6, 1916, ch. 448, §2, 39 Stat. 726; Williams 48–49 (“The appellate jurisdiction [of district courts] is very slender”). And, it remains true today that district courts have only “original jurisdiction” in federal- question cases, 28 U. S. C. §1331, and that only this Court has appellate jurisdiction over state courts in such cases, §1257(a). See ante, at 5. Congress specified no mode for district courts to exercise appellate jurisdiction in federal- question cases, §1331; the only federal court authorized to do so over state courts is this one—“by writ of certiorari,” §1257(a).

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