Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. University of Pennsylvania. Appeal of the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

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• holding that filing suit three days prior to the end of a grace period was anticipatory
• holding that the first-to-file rule “is not a mandate directing wooden application of the rule without regard to rare or extraordinary circumstances, inequitable conduct, bad faith, [anticipatory filing] or forum shopping”
• holding that the court did not abuse its discretion by declining to dismiss the second-filed suit when the timing of the first suit indicated an attempt to preempt the imminent second suit
• noting that the University knew that Third Circuit law precluded a finding in its favor and filed suit in District of Columbia to avoid adverse law
• stating that “[i]n all cases of federal concurrent jurisdiction, the court which first has possession of the subject must decide it” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• finding that the first-filed rule “is not a rigid or inflexible rule to be mechanically applied.”

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