Benny Saucier v. Aviva Life and Annuity Company

How courts have described this case

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• observing that most federal circuit courts have concluded that the preferred mechanism for relinquishing jurisdiction under the Colorado River abstention doctrine is a stay as opposed to a dismissal; a remand, however, is never an option
• “If the state court action is able to resolve all of the claims involved in a dispute with respect to all of the parties involved while the federal court action is able to resolve the dispute only partially, this would weigh in favor of abstention.”
• “If the state court action is able to resolve all of the claims involved in a dispute with respect to all of the parties involved while the federal court action is able to resolve the dispute only partially, this would weigh in favor of abstention.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).