SOUTH ORANGE MEDIATION

The court dismisses plaintiff’s civil rights complaint against the defendant, a family court judge who denied her application for a domestic violence restraining order, (1) because the judge is entitled to absolute judicial immunity; and (2) since, by asking the court to compel the judge to issue the restraining order, and to otherwise review the judge’s decision in plaintiff’s state court case, plaintiff is asking the court to act as a n appellate court, which is prohibited by the Rooker-Feldman doctrine.      Vandy v. Millard, U.S. Dist. Ct., District of New Jersey, March 16, 2007