Bates v. Indiana

How courts have described this case

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• holding that, under particular circumstances, “relevant state interests ... should have led the district court to exercise its statutorily provided discretion to decline to entertain [a] declaratory judgment action”
• holding that [i]n deciding whether to entertain a declaratory judgment action, a federal court should analyze whether its resolution of the declaratory action will settle all aspects of the legal controversy”
• recognizing promotion of comity as an appropriate concern in determining whether to grant declaratory relief
• noting that \the prospects for coordinated management and alleviation of abrasion are greater when the litigation is handled under one jurisdictional roof.\
• holding discretion in declaratory action broader than the exceptional circumstances test of Colorado River abstention
• noting that \the prospects for coordinated management and alleviation of abrasion are greater when the litigation is handled under one jurisdictional roof.\

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