Legal Opinion
Evans Transportation Company v. Scullin Steel Company
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 30, 1982No. 82-1230PublishedCited by 84 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
For the third time in recent months we are faced with the difficult question of a federal court’s power to decline to exercise its diversity jurisdiction because a parallel proceeding is pending in a state court. See Microsoftware Computer Systems, Inc. v. Ontel Corp., 686 F.2d 531 (7th Cir.1982); Voktas, Inc. v. Central Soya Co., 689 F.2d 103 (7th Cir.1982).
In 1978 Scullin Steel Company contracted to sell Southern Iron and Equipment Company steel rail-car castings manufactured in Scullin’s plant in Missouri. Southern is a division of Evans Transportation Company and the…
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