Hanson PLC v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that burden was met and first suit was dismissed
• disregarding first-filed rule where filing party lulled other side into waiting for promised settlement negotiations
• declining to apply first-filed rule where one party had “lull[ed]” the other “into believing that peace negotiations would precede any litigation”
• first-filed rule did not apply where party who filed second action had waited to file suit in reliance on proposed settlement talks

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).