Highlands Insurance v. A.E. Investments, Inc.

ORDER AND REASONS

FELDMAN, District Judge.

This Court is again asked to consider the appropriate regard for federal-state relations implicated in cases involving the contemporaneous exercise of concurrent jurisdiction by federal and state courts.

On its own motion, the Court has inquired into the applicability of the abstention doctrine of Colorado River and Brill-hart as that doctrine relates to a controversy in this Court involving solely the question of insurance coverage under circumstances in which liability and all other questions are presented in consolidated cases in state court.…