Southwind Aviation, Inc. v. Bergen Aviation, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the district court erred as a matter of law in classifying suit as a “declaratory judgment action” where plaintiff also requested coercive remedies for the breach of contract in the form of damages and injunctive relief
• requiring that district courts follow the standards articulated in Colorado River and Moses H. Cone, and reiterating that abstention is exceptional
• “When actions involve coercive relief the trial court must apply the standards enunciated by the Court in Colorado River ... ”
• when a court is considering abstaining from exercising jurisdiction over a declaratory judgment action, it must apply standards derived from Brillhart

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).