Ameritas Variable Life Insurance v. Roach
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Non-Argument Calendar.
1Per curiam
This is an appeal of a district court’s dismissal of a declaratory judgment action in favor of a parallel state court action. It also marks our first opportunity to discuss the circumstances under which a federal district court should decline to exercise its discretion to accept jurisdiction of such a controversy. The district court below found that the declaratory judgment action amounted to unnecessary and inappropriate interference with the parallel state court action, which will resolve the entire controversy, and granted a dismissal. We agree, finding that the district court did not…
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