International Fidelity Insurance v. Sweet Little Mexico Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• finding the core issue in two cases distinguishable where resolution of the second \was not dependent on\ the outcome in the first
• first quoting W. Gulf Mar. Ass’n v. ILA Deep Sea Local 24, 751 F.2d 721, 730 (5th Cir. 1985); and then quoting Mann Mfg., Inc. v. Hortex Inc., 439 F.2d 403, 407 (5th Cir.1971)
• “The first-to-file rule is a discretionary doctrine . . . .”
• “The rule does not require the cases to be identical.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).