Federal Case

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that “ ‘ordinarily’ federal courts should abstain from exercising their jurisdiction in a declaratory judgment action over disputes between insurance companies and their insureds in which the merits must be decided under state law”
• overruled on other grounds by Dizol, 133 F.3d 1220
• “differences in factual and legal 25 issues between the state and federal court proceedings are not dispositive because the 26 insurer ‘could have presented the issues that it brought to federal court in a separate 27 action to the same court that will decide the underlying tort action.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).