Legal Opinion
Axa Corporate Solutions, Plaintiff-Appellant/cross-Appellee v. Underwriters Reinsurance Corporation, Defendant-Appellee/cross-Appellant
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 17, 2003No. 02-3795, 02-3959PublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge.
This case. involves dueling lawsuits in Illinois and Texas; our task is to decide whether the federal district court in Illinois should have abstained as a matter of federal law, whether an Illinois statute designed to prevent wasteful and duplicative litigation in the state’s courts applies, and whether the proper response is to continue with the Illinois case, to stay the Illinois case, or to dismiss it altogether. Behind all this is the motion picture financing industry — specifically, certain products called insurance-backed film financing. The participants in…
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