Inextricably intertwined definition
Inextricably intertwined means, at a minimum, that where a federal plaintiff had an opportunity to litigate a claim in a state proceeding . . . , subsequent litigation will be barred under the Rooker–Feldman doctrine if it would be barred under principles of preclusion.” Phifer v. City of New York, 289 F.3d 49, 55–56 (2d Cir. 2002) (internal citations omitted); see also Pennzoil Co. v. Texaco, Inc., 481 U.S. 1, 25, 107 S. Ct. 1519, 95 L. Ed. 2d 1 (1987) (Marshall, J., concurring) (“The federal claim is inextricably intertwined with the state-court judgment if the federal claim succeeds only to the extent that the state court wrongly decided the issues before it.”). The Second Circuit has explained that:
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