United States v. City of Las Cruces

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• noting that the district court must determine whether a stay or dismissal is appropriate in the declaratory judgment context
• finding that “[t]he state proceedings would produce a ‘more comprehensive and cohesive’ remedy, because the rights of all, including the parties to the federal action, would be decided”
• timing was significant where party filed federal declaratory judgment action shortly after state court rejected its jurisdictional challenges
• upholding the district court’s exercise of discretion to “avoid[] a piecemeal approach” to adjudicating the parties’ rights
• upholding district court’s decision to withhold jurisdiction over declaratory judgment action but remanding case for district court to “consider whether the preferable remedy is to stay the federal proceedings”
• “Requiring district courts to first determine whether the federal and state proceedings are parallel before considering the other Colorado River factors is consistent with the narrowness of the doctrine.”

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