Gannett Company, Incorporated v. The Clark Construction Group, Incorporated

How courts have described this case

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• holding that suits were not parallel where federal action involved breach of contract issue and state lien action involved existence of contract issue
• holding that where state and federal suits are proceeding at similar paces, this factor weighs against abstention
• holding that “the district court abused its discretion by determining that the possibility of piecemeal litigation weighs in favor of abstention”
• holding that when both proceedings had progressed at similar paces, the “progress” factor counsels against abstention
• noting that abstention is based in part on principles of comity
• declining to abstain from parallel federal action due to lack of extraordinary circumstances

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).