Orville J. Augustin v. Rafig Ahmed Mughal

How courts have described this case

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• a party to an action having a claim in the nature of a cross-claim has the option to pursue it in an independent action
• “[A] party to an action having a claim in the nature of a cross-claim has the option to pursue it in an independent action.”
• which held that the abstention doctrine is “an extraordinary and narrow exception to the court’s duty to adjudicate a controversy properly before it which may be invoked only in exceptional circumstances.”
• “[C]ross-claims are merely permissive rather than compulsory. Accordingly, a party to an action having a claim in the nature of a cross-claim has the option to pursue it in an independent action.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).