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Wilton Vs. Seven Falls Co.

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 12, 1995

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  1. Miller Vs. Fenton US Supreme Court · Dec 03, 1985
  2. Mcclellan Vs. Carland US Supreme Court · Apr 11, 1910
  3. Wilton v. Seven
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  4. Falls Co. - 515 U.S. 277 (1995) October Term, 1994 Syllabus Wilton Et Al. V. Seven
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  5. judgment, the court did not require application of the test articulated in Colorado River Water Conservation Dist. v. United
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  6. States, 424 U. S. 800 , and Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury
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  7. The discretionary standard of Brillhart v. Excess
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  8. O'CONNOR delivered the opinion of the Court. This case asks whether the discretionary standard set forth in Brillhart v. Excess
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  9. test developed in Colorado River Water Conservation Dist. v. United
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  10. States, 424 U. S. 800 (1976), and Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury
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  11. id., at 935, citing Torch, Inc. v. LeBlanc
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  12. to stay a declaratory judgment action in favor of parallel state litigation, compare, e. g., Employers Ins. of Wausau v. Missouri
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  13. Lumbermens Mut. Casualty Co. v. Connecticut
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  14. Bank & Trust, 806 F.2d 411 , 413 (CA2 1986) (same), with Travelers Ins. Co. v. Louisiana
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  15. Mitcheson v. Harris
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  16. court's decision to stay a declaratory judgment action, compare, e. g., United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Murphy
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  17. Christopher P. v. Marcus
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  18. F.2d 794 , 802 (CA2 1990) (same), with Genentech, Inc. v. Eli
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  19. Cincinnati Ins. Co. v. Holbrook
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  20. F.2d 1330 , 1333 (CAll 1989) (same). We now affirm. II Over 50 years ago, in Brillhart v. Excess
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  21. to examine three cases handed down several decades after Brillhart. In Colorado River Water Conservation Dist. v. United
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  22. all uses and diversions of water by other parties. See Pet. for Cert. in Co lorado River Water Conservation Dist. v. United
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  23. exercise the jurisdiction conferred on them by Congress. Colorado River, supra, at 813, 817-818, citing Cohens v. Virginia
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  24. of the Federal Government in related state proceedings. Two years after Colorado River we decided Will v. Calvert
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  25. id., at 662, quoting McClellan v. Carland
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  26. application beyond the context of declaratory judgments was rejected by the Court in Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury
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  27. Public Servo Comm'n of Utah v. Wycoff
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  28. see also Green v. Mansour
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  29. Cardinal Chemical Co. v. Morton
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  30. review decisions to grant (or to refrain from granting) declaratory relief de novo. See, e. g., Genentech, Inc. v. Eli
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  31. and the fitness of the case for resolution, are peculiarly within their grasp. Cf. First Options of Chicago, Inc. v. Kaplan
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  32. at all. IV In sum, we conclude that Brillhart v. Excess
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  33. Syllabus Wilton Et Al. V. Seven
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  34. Colorado River Water Conservation Dist. v. United
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  35. and Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury
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  36. of Brillhart v. Excess
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  37. Brillhart v. Excess
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  38. Torch, Inc. v. LeBlanc
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  39. Employers Ins. of Wausau v. Missouri
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  40. Travelers Ins. Co. v. Louisiana
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  41. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Murphy
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  42. Genentech, Inc. v. Eli
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  43. Brillhart. In Colorado River Water Conservation Dist. v. United
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  44. River Water Conservation Dist. v. United
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  45. Cohens v. Virginia
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  46. Will v. Calvert
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  47. Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury
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  48. Green v. Mansour
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  49. Cf. First Options of Chicago, Inc. v. Kaplan
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