Collegiate Licensing Company v. American Casualty Co. of Reading Pennsylvania

How courts have described this case

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

• intervention was timely “because the lawsuit was still in its beginning stages and intervention would not cause any prejudice to the existing parties”
• intervention was timely “because the lawsuit was still in its beginning stages and intervention would not cause any prejudice to the existing parties”
• “when parties have instituted competing or parallel litigation in separate courts, the court initially seized of the controversy should hear the case”
• “The first-filed rule provides that when parties have instituted competing or parallel litigation in separate courts, the court initially seized of the controversy should hear the case.”
• “The first-filed rule provides that when parties have instituted competing or parallel litigation in separate courts, the court initially seized 12 of the controversy should hear the case.” (internal citation omitted)
• “The first-filed rule not only determines which court may decide the merits of substantially similar cases, but also generally establishes which court may decide whether the second filed suit must be dismissed, stayed, or transferred and consolidated.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).