Legal Opinion
Pilkington Bros. PLC v. AFG Industries Inc.
District Court, D. Delaware
Decided February 28, 1984No. Civ. A. 83-561 MMSPublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MURRAY M. SCHWARTZ, District Judge.
This is an action for declaratory and injunctive relief under 28 U.S.C. §§ 2201-02 (1976) with jurisdiction based upon diversity, and an application for an order confirming an arbitral award under 9 U.S.C. § 201 (1982). The Court has before it plaintiff’s motion for a preliminary injunction and defendant’s motion for summary judgment. The central issue embodied in those motions is one of first impression: whether an American court should issue a preliminary injunction duplicative of an ex parte interim injunction issued by a foreign court based solely…
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