Aetna Casualty & Surety Company v. Ind-Com Electric Company

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the court’s discretion “must be guided” by, inter alia, considerations of efficiency, comity, and wise judicial administration
• holding that there is no requirement that a state action be pending before a federal court may decline to exercise jurisdiction over a declaratory judgment action
• describing procedural fencing as a device “to provide another forum in a race for res judicata.”
• enumerating several factors to guide court’s exercise of discretionary jurisdiction over declaratory judgments
• “[T]he existence of [a parallel state] proceeding should be a significant factor in the district court’s determination. But it is not dispositive.”
• “This circuit has long recognized the discretion afforded to district courts in determining whether to render declaratory relief.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).