Marilyn Clark, on Behalf of Sears v. Alam Lacy

How courts have described this case

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• affirming district court’s stay of a federal action where the federal action alleged only state law claims
• considering plaintiffs in two derivative shareholder suits essentially the same because the corporation was “the true party in interest”
• “To be sufficiently similar it is not necessary that there be ‘formal symmetry between the two actions’ ”
• “Parties with ‘nearly identical’ interests are considered ‘substantially the same’ for Colorado River purposes.” (quoting Caminiti & Iatarola, 692 F.2d at 700–01)
• “Even though an additional remedy is sought in the federal action, the liability issues (which are the central legal issues) remain the same in both cases.”
• “Parties with ‘nearly identical’ interests are considered ‘substantially the same’ for Colorado River purposes.” (quoting Caminiti & Iatarola, Ltd. v. Behnke Warehousing, Inc., 962 F.2d 698, 700-01 (7th Cir. 1992))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).