Cruz v. FTS Construction, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that one purpose behind the doctrine of priority jurisdiction is “to prevent vexatious litigation and multiplicity of suits” (alterations, internal quotation marks, and citation omitted)
• stating that one purpose behind the doctrine of priority jurisdiction is “to prevent 5 vexatious litigation and multiplicity of suits” (alterations, internal quotation marks, 6 and citation omitted)
• noting that the policy rationale behind the doctrine is “‘to ‘avoid[] conflicts that might arise between courts if they were to make contradictory decisions or awards relating to the same controversy, and [to] prevent[] vexatious litigation and multiplicity of suits’’’
• “A plaintiff cannot avoid the application'of res judi-cata where he or she brought a prior suit on the same cause of action in a court with a jurisdictional limit”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).