Javits v. Ass'n of the Bar

How courts have described this case

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• holding that New York City's action under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) comes within the exception despite the costs of the environmental clean-up to the debtor
• noting that first court has jurisdiction to enjoin second court
• affirming injunction against parallel litigation in California in connection with second-filed action where New York court already spent considerable time and effort on the case
• “where an action is brought in one federal district court and a later action embracing the same issue is brought in another federal court,” the first court has priority “unless there are special circumstances which justify giving priority to the second action”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).