Legal Opinion
Jones v. the St. Paul Companies, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 6, 2007No. 06-3656PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BYE, Circuit Judge.
The St. Paul Companies, Inc. (St.Paul), successful in defending claims brought against it in federal court by Jarvis Jones, challenges the district court’s 1 declination to enjoin a Georgia state court action Jones later filed against five current or former employees of St. Paul alleging tort claims which, although different from the claims brought in federal court, arose out of the same set of facts and circumstances. The district court concluded the relitigation exception to the Anti-Injunction Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2283, did not permit enjoining claims that could have been…
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