Edgar H. Battle, D/B/A Edgar H. Battle Funeral Home v. Liberty National Life Insurance Company, Aubrey Carr, James L. Taylor, as the Adm., Etc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a district court’s injunction of state court proceedings was necessary in aid of its jurisdiction over non-MDL complex class action that had already reached settlement and final judgment
• holding that a district court’s injunction of state court proceedings was necessary in aid of its jurisdiction over non‐MDL complex class action that had already reached settlement and final judgment
• holding that—because state court denial of summary judgment regarding the preclusive effect of a federal class settlement was not a final decision—the federal court could decide the issue and enjoin the state court from doing so
• reasoning that a “lengthy, complicated litigation is the virtual equivalent of a res” (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)
• noting that the class action 12 settlement in that case “is the virtual equivalent of a res” (quotation marks omitted)
• affirming an All Writs Act 3 injunction of state court proceedings that challenged the propriety of the federal district court’s 4 judgment in a class action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).