Roy v. Terminix International, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• staying second-filed action pending decision by first-filed court on any challenges to venue
• \Exceptions to the [first-filed] rule are not rare.... [A court] has discretion to give preference to a later-filed action when that action will better serve the interests involved\
• “Courts in nearly every circuit have held that the court in which the second action was filed should defer to courts in the first-filed action”
• “This Court believes that the Federal Circuit’s decision [in Micron ] is best understood as controlling how a first-filed court should apply the first-to-file rule, not which court is best positioned to conduct that analysis.”
• discussing the “first-to-file” rule and exceptions to the same

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).