Legal Opinion
Mitcheson v. Harris
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided January 29, 1992No. 90-2229PublishedCited by 151 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
WILKINSON, Circuit Judge;
In this case an insurer comes to federal court seeking a declaratory judgment regarding its obligation to defend and indemnify its insured when the underlying mat*236ter for which the insured claims coverage is the subject of an action already pending in state court. The issue of whether a federal court should decline to entertain an insurer’s declaratory action when it is closely related to pending state court litigation has been one of recurrent difficulty. In the present version, Vines, a tenant of appellant Harris, brought non-removable, purely state law claims…
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