Great South Bay Medical Care, P.C. v. Allstate Insurance

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• holding that second factor weighed against abstention because although “one venue may be more convenient to a party, neither is significantly inconvenient”
• finding that while the state court action names numerous defendants not in the federal action, “this factor alone does not render the proceedings non- parallel.”
• finding that plaintiff’s rights could be adequately protected by the state court because defamation, a state law claim, could easily and accurately be analyzed by the state court
• “While the State Court Action names numerous defendants in addition to GSB, this factor alone does not render the proceedings non-parallel.”
• “Lawsuits are considered ‘parallel’ if ‘substantially the same parties are contemporaneously litigating substantially the same issues in different forums.’” (quoting Dittmer v. County of Suffolk, 146 F.3d 113, 118 (2d Cir. 1998))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).