LLOYD L. BOWEIN v. JOHN SHERMAN AND IRENE SHERMAN

How courts have described this case

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• collecting cases for the proposition that the injured party need not have sued the insured before a declaratory judgment action is filed
• collecting cases where courts had jurisdiction to issue declaratory relief even though an insured had not yet been sued
• quoting, with added emphasis, Maryland Cas. Co. v. Pacific Coal & Oil Co., 312 U.S. 270, 273 (1941)
• “But the sine qua non is an identifiable specific claim that has risen above the horizon.”
• “Absent [an] identifiable claim against [a party], there [is] no actual controversy to be resolved in the declaratory-judgment action.”
• “Article III has long been interpreted as forbidding federal courts from rendering advisory opinions.” (citing Flast v. Cohen, 392 U.S. 83, 96 (1968))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).