T. M. v. University of Md. Medical System Corporation · ¶86
A district court therefore cannot “act as an appellate Court” to revise state-court judgments. Smith v. McIver, 9 Wheat. 532, 535 (1824) (Marshall, C. J., for the Court). To do so by “declar[ing]” a state-court judgment “void” for errors of federal law “usurps the jurisdiction of an appellate court.” Voorhees, 10 Pet., at 474.Read in context ›
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