Covington v. Joiner

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the absence of issues of federal law weigh in favor of denying a federal declaration, even when the federal action is filed first
• declining to exercise jurisdiction in declaratory judgment action with only state- law claims and parallel state court proceedings
• dismissing declaratory judgment action regarding an alleged duty to indemnify in an underlying wrongful death action because the case did not involve federal law or federal issues
• dismissing declaratory judgment action where “[t]he absence of any question of federal law . . . eliminates a potential federal interest in entertaining this case sufficient to override the inefficiencies of dual proceedings”
• declining to consider a declaratory action because the state-court judge considering the issue in both a parallel state declaratory action and the underlying wrongful death suit would have a better grasp of the facts

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