Legal Opinion
Aetna Casualty & Surety Company v. Ind-Com Electric Company
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided March 23, 1998No. 97-1347PublishedCited by 174 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Affirmed by published per curiam opinion.
OPINION
2Per curiam
This appeal requires us to consider a question that the Supreme Court expressly declined to answer in Wilton v. Seven Falls Co., 1 namely, what are the bounds of a district court’s discretion to dismiss a declaratory judgment action in the absence of a parallel state court proceeding. Because we refuse to fashion a per se rule requiring a district court to entertain a declaratory judgment action when no state court proceeding is pending, and because we are further satisfied, that the demands and policies of our case law support the district…
3Cases cited8 opinions
- Wilton v. Seven Falls Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1995
- Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v. QuarlesCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1937
- Mitcheson v. HarrisCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1992
- Nautilus Insurance v. Winchester Homes, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1994
- Nautilus Insurance Company v. Winchester Homes, Incorporated, Reliance Wood Preserving, Incorporated Pennsylvania Lumbermen's Mutual Insurance Company Great American Insurance Company v. Martin Mullaney, Third PartyCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1994
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4Cited by174 opinions
- United Capitol Insurance Company v. Bernard Kapiloff Lynn Kapiloff v. United Capitol Insurance Company J.L. Hickman & Company, Incorporated, T/a Ifa Insurance Services, Incorporated Horan Goldman & Company of Maryland, Incorporated Ray MillerCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1998
- Sherwin-Williams Co. v. Holmes CountyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2003
- New Wellington Financial Corp. v. Flagship Resort Development Corp.Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 2005
- Rox-Ann Reifer v. Westport Insurance CorpCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2014
- United States v. City of Las CrucesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 2002
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