Collin County, Texas v. Homeowners Association for Values Essential to Neighborhoods, (Haven) v. Robert E. Farris, as Federal Highway Administrator

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• holding a party seeking declaratory relief must have a viable underlying cause of action
• dismissing a declaratory judgment action because plaintiffs’ had “no apprehension” of a lawsuit
• “[I]t is the underlying cause of action . . . that is actually litigated in a declaratory judgment action.”
• “[I]t is the underlying cause of action ... that is actually litigated in a declaratory judgment action.”
• “[I]t is the underlying cause of action of the defendant against the plaintiff that is actually litigated in a declaratory judgment action . . . .”
• federal declaratory judgment act is remedial only; it is the defendant's underlying cause of action against the plaintiff that is litigated in a suit under the act

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).