Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. v. Mortgage Guaranty Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• observing that the Declaratory Judgment Act “in no way modifies the district court’s jurisdiction, which must properly exist independent of the” Declaratory Judgment Act
• noting that the FAA “mandates that district courts shall direct the parties to proceed to arbitration on issues as to which an arbitration agreement has been signed”
• noting that the FAA “mandates that district courts shall direct the parties to proceed to arbitration on issues as to which an arbitration agreement has been signed”
• explaining “[t]he express terms of the [FAA] do not allow a district court to abstain from granting relief in cases where its jurisdiction is proper” (emphasis added)
• explaining that the Declaratory Judgment Act (“DJA”
• district court properly exercised jurisdiction over FAA claim involving state-law dispute where the court “ha[d] independent diversity jurisdiction”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).