· 10/8/1987
Republicbank Dallas, National Association v. Burt H. McIntosh Charles L. Snyder, Stan Patton and William D. Flemister
Citations
- 828 F.2d 1120
- 1987 U.S. App. LEXIS 13333
How courts have described this case
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- finding that it may be that there need not be applied in every instance a mincing on precise identity of parties and issues.
- noting that a “mincing insistence on precise identity” may not always be necessary but nevertheless defining “parallel” actions as “those ‘involving the same parties and the same issues’”
- observing that parallel cases are those that “involv[e] the same parties and the same issues” and that there may be no need for a “mincing insistence on precise identity of these in every case”
- finding federal and state actions which had some common issues were nevertheless nonparallel where “[t]he other issues are disparate, . . . and the parties are not the same”
- “[T]here need not be applied in every instance a mincing insistence on precise identity of parties and issues.”
- “[Courts] look both to the named parties and to the substance of the claims asserted in each proceeding.”
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Judges: Gee, Johnson, Jones, Per Curiam
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