Motion Picture Laboratory Technicians Local 780, I.A.T.S.E. v. McGregor & Werner, Inc.

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• reversing with instructions to dismiss under the prior pending action doctrine a complaint filed in the Southern District of New York where “the essentially identical action was already underway” in the Middle District of Florida
• \The chief ‘special circumstance' we have noted is our interest in discouraging forum shopping.\
• “‘[W]here there are two competing lawsuits, the first suit should have priority, absent the showing of balance of convenience in favor of the second action, or unless there are special circumstances which justify giving priority to the second.’ ”

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