American Steamship Owners Mutual Protection & Indemnity Ass'n v. LaFarge North America, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the first-filed “principle requires a substantial overlap between the cases, in that they have identical or substantially similar parties and claims”
• finding that although the location of documents is a proper consideration, it has become “largely a neutral factor in today’s world of faxing, scanning, and emailing documents”
• denying stay where insurer “would have to wait years for a decision,” which is “precisely the sort of substantial prejudice to a party that the law seeks to avoid”
• “The location of relevant documents is largely a neutral factor in today’s world of faxing, scanning, and emailing documents.”
• “The location of relevant documents is largely a neutral factor in today’s world of faxing, scanning, and emailing documents.”
• “The location of relevant documents is largely a neutral factor in today’s world of faxing, scanning, and emailing documents.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).