Clemente v. Greyhound Corporation

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that a court may decline jurisdiction over a declaratory judgment action when there are other, more “effective” tools available for resolving the underlying dispute
• “[T]he principal reason for the invention of the declaratory judgment procedure was to enable the law of a case to be determined before mere differences ripen into actual injuries.”
• “[T]he principal reason for the invention of the declaratory judgment procedure was to enable the law of a case to be determined before mere differences ripen into actual injuries.”
• “[T]he principal reason for the invention of the declaratory judgment procedure was to enable the law of a case to be determined before mere differences ripen into actual injuries.”
• In the discussion of appropriate relief in a declaratory judgment case, the Court stated “generally the relief prayed in the complaint will not control the ultimate relief that may be warranted”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).