Opinion
CASE NO. 1:14-CV-2364
12-10-2014
YURIY Y. KRASNOV, et al., Plaintiffs, v. RBS CITIZENS, N.A., Defendant.
OPINION & ORDER
[Resolving Doc. No. 10]
:
The pro se plaintiffs have filed an "Emergency Motion" in this case to stay proceedings to enforce a state-court judgment issued on December 1, 2014 in RBS Citizens, N.A. v. Yuriy Krasnov, et al., Case No. 742261 (Cuyahoga Cty. Court of Common Pleas) while this case is pending. (Doc. No. 10.) The December 1, 2014 state-court judgment the plaintiffs seek to stay is a decree by the Ohio court confirming the sale of real property sold pursuant to the court's prior judgment of foreclosure.
Federal courts lack subject-matter jurisdiction to review claims of injury to plaintiffs caused by state-court judgments under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine. Givens v. Homecomings Financial, 278 Fed. App'x 607, 2008 WL 2121008, at *1 (6th Cir. May 20, 2008). Accordingly, this Court will not interfere with the state court's December 1, 2014 judgment. The plaintiffs' emergency motion "to stay" the state-court's December 1, 2014 judgment is, therefore, denied.
The defendants have filed a motion to dismiss the plaintiffs' entire complaint in this case on the basis of the Rooker-Feldman doctrine. (See Doc. No. 7.) The Court will consider the defendants' motion to dismiss in a subsequent order. At this juncture, the plaintiff's emergency motion to stay is denied.
IT IS SO ORDERED. Dated: December 10, 2014
s/ James S. Gwin
JAMES S. GWIN
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE