Step-Saver Data Systems, Inc. v. Wyse Technology, the Software Link, Inc

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a useful judgment helps parties “make responsible plans about the future”
• holding that a claim for indemnification was not ripe where it arose under common law and distinguishing this holding from AC & S, in which the claim arose under contract and was thus ripe
• explaining that the issue of “the insurers duty to defend was ripe even though liability had not been definitely established in the underlying suits”
• concluding conclusivness factor not satisfied where the declaratory judgment requested would be “based on a contingency—if the [underlying lawsuits] can establish [a] defect.” (quotations omitted)
• explaining that Declaratory Judgment Act does not empower a court to render “an opinion advising what the law would be upon a hypothetical state of facts”
• discussing the applicability of the case or controversy requirement in the declaratory judgment context

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).