# In Re Cook

> Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · January 6, 2009 · 551 F.3d 542

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9634035

## Case

- **Full name:** In Re Linda S. COOK
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- **Decided:** January 6, 2009
- **Citations:** 551 F.3d 542; 2009 U.S. App. LEXIS 23; 2009 WL 21265
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Rogers
- **Judges:** Clay, Gilman, Rogers
- **Cited by:** 131 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- stating that “the pertinent question in determining whether a federal district court is *830 precluded under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine from exercising subject-matter jurisdiction over a claim is whether the source of the injury upon which plaintiff bases his federal claim is…
- holding that it is "well established that a defendant's remorse-or lack thereof-is an appropriate consideration in meting out punishment."
- stating that “[d]ue process is not implicated by the consideration of a defendant’s lack of remorse as an aggravating factor” and that “a defendant’s remorse—or lack thereof—is an appropriate consideration in meting out punishment”
- holding that the federal court was not permitted to review the adequacy of the state disbarment proceedings, but only whether alleged defects in the state proceedings tainted the federal disbarment proceedings
- stating that "the Rooker - Feldman doctrine... precludes review of any claims arising directly out of [a plaintiff's] state disbarment proceedings or [a state] Supreme Court's disbarment order"

## Opinion text

ROGERS, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
I concur in the majority opinion. I write separately only to express my understanding that our review in this case does not extend to the sufficiency of the evidence in the state disbarment proceeding.

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