Mission Insurance Company v. Puritan Fashions Corporation

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• holding that Colorado River abstention test is inapplicable where the Declaratory Judgment Act is involved
• holding that plaintiff should not be permitted to gain precedence in time and forum by filing a declaratory action which is merely anticipatory of a parallel state action
• holding that it is appropriate for a federal district court to decline jurisdiction over a declaratory judgment action where the declaratory judgment action was filed in apparent anticipation of a suit in another forum
• noting that the Declaratory Judgment Act bestows “a choice, not a command” on a district court (quotation omitted)
• explaining that “the Declaratory Judgment Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2201, confers no jurisdiction but is a procedural device designed to provide a new remedy to the federal court arsenal”
• finding that anticipatory suits are disfavored because they are aspects of forum shopping

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