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· 7/20/2007

Travelers Indemnity Co. v. Bowling Green Professional Associates, PLC

Citations

  • 495 F.3d 266
  • 2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 17246
  • 2007 WL 2066861

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that the alternative remedies of a state declaratory judgment or indemnity action \weighed against federal discretionary jurisdiction\
  • holding that non-parties, not joined in the district court, are not bound by the entry of declaratory judgment.
  • holding that the district court abused its discretion in exercising jurisdiction over insurance company’s declaratory judgment action
  • concluding that the district court’s decision could not settle the controversy in the underlying state court litigation and, thus, the first factor favored not exercising jurisdiction
  • holding that Kentucky's Declaratory Judgment Act provided an alternative remedy to federal jurisdiction
  • finding that the alternative remedies of a state declaratory judgment or indemnity action “weighed against federal discretionary jurisdiction”

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Judges: Merritt, Griffin, Lawson

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