Capitol Indemnity Corp. v. Haverfield

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• holding that district court abused its discretion in denying a motion to dismiss or stay a federal declaratory judgment action in favor of a parallel state court proceeding, even though the federal action was filed several months prior to the state suit
• holding, despite the fact that the insurer’s federal declaratory judgment action was filed six months before the state court action, that “the state court was in a better position to adjudicate the matter” and the district court therefore should have abstained

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).