Penn Central Casualty Co. v. Pennsylvania Ex Rel. Schnader

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing that, if “the judgment sought is … for the recovery of money or for an injunction compelling or restraining action by the defendant,” then it is “strictly in personam”
• recognizing that, if “the judgment sought is … for the recovery of money or for an injunction compelling or restraining action by the defendant,” then it is “strictly in personam”
• concluding that when in rem actions involving the same property are simultaneously pending in federal and state court, the court first assuming jurisdiction over the property may exercise that jurisdiction to the exclusion of the other
• affirming injunction against state court proceedings to protect court’s ability to control and dispose of property in liquidation proceeding
• applying the doctrine in the context of a first-filed federal case and second-filed state case and holding that the federal court had exclusive jurisdiction
• giving preference to the court “whose jurisdiction and process are first invoked by the fil- ing of the bill”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).