Jackson Hewitt, Inc. v. J2 Financial Services, Inc.

OPINION

REBECCA BEACH SMITH, District Judge.

This ease is before the Court on Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss or Stay. Defendants present two arguments: (1) that the Court should abstain because the case involves unsettled issues of state law important to California public policy; and (2) that the Court should dismiss under the Colorado River doctrine of abstention in deference to ongoing litigation between the parties in California state court. See Colorado River Water Conservation Dist. v. United States, 424 U.S. 800, 817, 96 S.Ct. 1236, 1246, 47 L.Ed.2d 483 (1976).

I. Factual and Procedural…