The Cadle Company v. Whataburger of Alice, Inc. M. Louise Andrews Kathy A. Reese Herbert E. Pounds, Jr. George P. Braun and Joe Alvin Andrews, Jr.

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• holding that the second-filed court correctly refused to resolve the question of whether the first-filed court or the second-filed court should retain the case
• holding that it is unnecessary for the second-filed court to analyze the first-filed court’s potential jurisdiction over all defendants before applying 23 Id. 24 Id. at 7, 10. 25 Id. at 7. the rule
• holding that it is unnecessary for the second-filed court to analyze the first-filed court’s potential jurisdiction over all defendants before applying 23 Id. 24 Id. at 7, 10. 25 Id. at 7. the rule
• holding that, under the first-to-file rule, “the court in which an action is first filed is the appropriate court to determine whether subsequently filed cases involving substantially similar issues should proceed” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• noting that the court of first filing takes priority as a product of its jurisdiction over a common subject matter
• stating that a second-filed court applying the first-filed rule “is not binding the litigants before it to a ruling of the first [court]”

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