Federal Case

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that 26 a stay is only appropriate “when there is a strong federal policy against [piecemeal] litigation”
• holding that Ryan represents the applicable law under Third Circuit and Supreme Court precedent
• holding that “when a district court relies on the Colorado River doctrine to stay a case in federal court because it is duplicative with a state court proceeding, such a stay will generally have the ‘practical effect of a dismissal,’ by putting a party ‘effectively out of [federal] court’ ”
• discussing weight of anti-piecemeal-litigation policy necessary to make this factor favor a stay
• third factor satisfied only where the law in question evinces a “strong federal policy against [such] litigation.”
• “Colorado River abstention must be based on more than just the interest in avoiding duplicative litigation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).