Legal Opinion
United States v. Rural Electric Convenience Cooperative Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 15, 1991No. 90-1516PublishedCited by 71 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
The United States Rural Electrification Administration (REA) brought suit in district court seeking a preliminary injunction to enjoin state court declaratory judgment proceedings involving two rural electric cooperatives to which it had loaned money. The REA argued that because the state court action implicated significant federal interests, the district court should enjoin the state proceeding in favor of a parallel federal proceeding that the REA had initiated, in which all parties to the state court proceeding had been joined. The district court denied the REA’s…
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