Legal Opinion
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. University of Pennsylvania. Appeal of the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided August 26, 1988No. 87-1547PublishedCited by 276 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
SCIRICA, Circuit Judge.
Nearly fifty years ago, this court adopted what has become known as the “first-filed” rule. We concluded that “[i]n all cases of federal concurrent jurisdiction, the court which first has possession of the subject must decide it.” Crosley Corp. v. Hazeltine Corp., 122 F.2d 925, 929 (3d Cir.1941) (quoting Smith v. McIver, 22 U.S. (9 Wheat.) 532, 6 L.Ed. 152 (1824)), cert. denied, 315 U.S. 813, 62 S.Ct. 798, 86 L.Ed. 1211 (1942). Since then, this policy of comity has served to counsel trial judges to exercise their discretion by enjoining the…
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3Cited by276 opinions
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