American International Underwriters, (Philippines), Inc., a Philippines Corporation v. The Continental Insurance Company, a New Hampshire Corporation

How courts have described this case

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• holding that substantial progress had been made where the state court judge had decided seven motions
• noting that seven motions decided by the state court judge supported a finding that the state action had priority over the federal one
• holding that plaintiffs who have filed a complaint in state court should not be allowed to refile their complaint in federal court because refiling would effectively permit the plaintiff to remove his own action to a federal forum in contravention of 28 U.S.C. § 1441
• finding that a two-and-a-half-year lapse 8 in time weighed in favor of a stay
• involving a plaintiff who abandoned a state court case because the Federal Rules of Evidence were more favorable than the state evidentiary rules
• finding forum shopping where, after two-and-a-half years, a party “abandoned] its state court case solely because it believe[d] that the Federal Rules of Evidence [we]re more favorable to it than the state eviden-tiary rules”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).