Interstate Material Corporation, an Illinois Corporation, on Its Own Behalf and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. City of Chicago

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• holding that a federal lawsuit “could be considered” contrived when the plaintiff files parallel suits “seeking substantially the same relief from substantially the same parties”
• noting that this factor weighed in favor of abstention where state action was filed seven months before federal action
• finding that “the federal suit could be considered both vexatious and contrived” when “all claims and all parties could” have been “part of one suit”
• noting that the Colorado River doctrine is inapplicable in cases of non-parallel proceed­ ings
• noting that the Colorado River doctrine is inapplicable in cases of non-parallel proceedings
• finding it significant that the party opposing abstention “filed both actions and chose to file in state court first”

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