April 14, 1994 [NOT FOR PUBLICATION]
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT
No. 93-1676
TERESA FAYE MESSER,
Plaintiff, Appellee,
v.
JOSEPH E. MESSER,
Defendant, Appellant.
APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
[Hon. Martin F. Loughlin, Senior U.S. District Judge]
Before
Breyer, Chief Judge,
Boudin and Stahl, Circuit Judges.
Joseph E. Messer on brief pro se.
J. Normand Jacques on brief for appellee.
Per Curiam. To the extent appellant was seeking to
remove state court actions to federal court, the petition for
removal was properly dismissed because it was untimely. 28
U.S.C. 1446(b) (30 days for removal). To the extent
appellant sought to bring a new action in federal court
challenging the rulings of the state court, the action was
properly dismissed because lower federal courts lack
authority to review state court judgments even when the
judgments are challenged as unconstitutional. Rooker v.
Fidelity Trust Co., 263 U.S. 413, 415-16 (1923); Willhauck v.
Halpin, 953 F.2d 689, 704 n.14 (1st Cir. 1991); ("the Civil
Rights Act is not a vehicle for collateral attack upon final
state court judgments"); Lancellotti v. Fay, 909 F.2d 15, 16
(1st Cir. 1990).
Affirmed.