Wallace B. Roderick Revocable Living Trust v. XTO Energy, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining “while the first-to-file rule is generally enforced by the first court, the second district court has discretion to transfer, stay, or dismiss the second case in the interest of efficiency and judicial economy” (citation modified)
• “[c]ourts rarely dismiss claims pursuant to the first-to-file rule, preferring instead to transfer those claims to the court where the similar claims were first filed”
• “[c]ourts rarely dismiss claims pursuant to the first-to-file rule, preferring instead to transfer those claims to the court where the similar claims were first filed”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).