United States v. State Of Washington

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• setting forth principles with respect to previously unsettled question governing the standards for exercising discretion to grant declaratory relief, and reversing the district court's grant of such relief on that basis
• setting forth principles with respect to previously unsettled question governing the standards for exercising discretion to grant declaratory relief, and reversing the district court’s grant of such relief on that basis
• noting declaratory relief should be denied when it will neither serve a useful purpose in clarifying or settling the legal relations in issue nor terminate the proceedings and afford relief from the uncertainty and controversy faced by the parties
• “[T]he court may, after a full consideration of the merits, 20 exercise its discretion to refuse to grant declaratory relief because the state of the record is 21 inadequate to support the extent of relief sought.”
• “Declaratory relief should 9 be denied when it will neither serve a useful purpose in clarifying and settling the legal relations 10 in issue nor terminate the proceedings and afford relief from the uncertainty and controversy 11 faced by the parties.”
• “Declaratory relief should be 22 denied when it will neither serve a useful purpose in clarifying and settling the legal relations in 23 issue nor terminate the proceedings and afford relief from the uncertainty and controversy faced 24 by the parties.”

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