Legal Opinion
Calvert Fire Insurance Company v. American Mutual Reinsurance Company
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 27, 1979No. 78-2638PublishedCited by 91 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CASTLE, Senior Circuit Judge.
This case raises questions relating to the power of a federal district judge to stay a federal suit involving questions of federal law which have already been decided in a parallel state suit 1 when he determines that the federal suit has been brought to delay the state proceeding. Such a deferral to a state court for reasons of “wise judicial administration” not falling within the ambit of the abstention doctrine was first recognized by the Supreme Court in Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States, 424 U.S. 800, 96 S.Ct. 1236, 47 L.Ed.2d 483…
2Cases cited24 opinions
- Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Landis v. North American Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1936
- Brillhart v. Excess Insurance Co. of AmericaSupreme Court of the United States · 1942
- Kerotest Manufacturing Co. v. C-O-Two Fire Equipment Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1952
- Will v. Calvert Fire InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
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- Interstate Material Corporation, an Illinois Corporation, on Its Own Behalf and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. City of ChicagoCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1988
- James R. Laduke v. Burlington Northern Railroad CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1989
- Lumen Construction, Inc. v. Brant Construction Co.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1985
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