Legal Opinion
CFE Group, LLC v. FirstMerit Bank, N.A.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 31, 2015No. 14-2554PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAMILTON, Circuit Judge.
The principal question in this appeal is whether the district court correctly refused to enjoin a state court from adjudicating a case that the state-court plaintiff had voluntarily dismissed in an earlier incarnation in federal court. In the earlier federal case, FirstMerit Bank had sued CFE Group, LLC and related parties (for simplicity, CFE) to enforce a promissory note and guaranties. CFE moved to dismiss that complaint. The district court granted the motion and dismissed First-Merit’s complaint without prejudice, but with leave to amend. Rather than amend,…
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