Rox-Ann Reifer v. Westport Insurance Corp

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “a remand order entered pursuant to the [Declaratory Judgment Act] is an appealable final decision”
• concluding that it was not abuse of- discretion for the district court to decline jurisdiction over a declaratory judgment action because state law issues “peculiarly within the purview of the [state] court system” were raised
• concluding that it was not abuse of discretion for the district court to decline jurisdiction over a declaratory judgment action because state law issues “peculiarly within the purview of the [state] court system” were raised
• explaining that “the existence or non-existence of pending parallel state proceedings is but one factor for a district court to consider”
• providing that “federal and state courts are equally capable of applying settled state law to a difficult set of facts”
• holding that federal courts have substantial discretion to decide whether to exercise jurisdiction under the DJA, and that this discretion is bounded and reviewable (citing Wilton v. Seven Falls Co. , 515 U.S. 277 , 115 S.Ct. 2137 , 132 L.Ed.2d 214 (1995

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).