T. M. v. University of Md. Medical System Corporation · ¶98

More to the point, in trying to read between the lines of § 1257 and § 1331, Rooker-Feldman misses what is further down the page: Congress has told us how to treat state-court judgments. The Full Faith and Credit Act, 28 U. S. C. § 1738, provides that the “judicial proceedings of any court” of any State “shall have the same full faith and credit in every court within the United States . . . as they have by law or usage in the courts of such State . . . from which they are taken.” In other words, federal courts “must give the same preclusive effect to a state-court judgment as another court of that State would give.” Parsons Steel, 474 U. S., at 523.

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