Legal Opinion
Will v. Calvert Fire Insurance
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 23, 1978No. 77-693PublishedCited by 442 opinions
1Judgment of the CourtJustice Rehnquist, joined by Justice Stewart, Justice White, and Justice Stevens
On August 15, 1977, the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit granted a petition for writ of mandamus ordering petitioner, a judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, “to proceed immediately” to adjudicate a claim based upon the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and brought by respondent, Calvert Fire Insurance Co., against American Mutual Reinsurance Co., despite the pendency of a substantially identical proceeding between the same parties in the Illinois state courts. 560 F. 2d 792, 797. The Court of Appeals felt that our recent decision in Colorado…
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