Warshawsky & Company v. Arcata National Corporation and Arcata Graphics Corporation

How courts have described this case

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• noting that Rule 13(a), one of the Rules of Civil Procedure, “should be interpreted liberally in order to further the general policies of the federal rules....”
• compulsory counterclaim could have been tried in either Illinois or California— not necessarily in court which first acquired jurisdiction
• court of first filing should enjoin parties from proceeding in court of second filing on counterclaim which should have been asserted in court of first filing
• “As a word of flexible meaning; ‘transaction’ may comprehend a series of many occurrences, depending not so much upon the immediateness of their connection as upon their logical relationship.”
• that a court has the “power to enjoin subsequent proceedings in another jurisdiction . . . does not necessarily entail the conclusion that it was required to exercise that power”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).