Elmer M. Kunkel, William H. Dennler, John D. Lockton, Ted B. Westfall and William D. Robertson v. Continental Casualty Company

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• holding that a district court did not abuse its discretion in interpreting the coverage limits of an insurance policy in a declaratory judgment action, even though that dispute was pending in a different lawsuit
• ‘'[N]othing in the Declaratory Judgment Act prohibits a court from deciding a purely legal question of contract interpretation which arises in the context of a justiciable controversy presenting other factual issues.”
• federal court generally should not entertain declaratory judgment action if same fact-dependent issues likely to be decided in another pending proceeding
• “a district court ‘should not entertain a declaratory judgment action over which it has jurisdiction if the fact-dependent issues are likely to be decided in another pending proceeding’ ”
• “A federal court generally should not entertain a declaratory judgment action over which it has jurisdiction if the same fact-dependent issues are likely to be decided in another pending proceeding.”

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