VILLA MARINA YACHT SALES v. HATTERAS YACHTS

No. 90-1206.

915 F.2d 7 (1990)

VILLA MARINA YACHT SALES, INC., et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. HATTERAS YACHTS, et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided September 20, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Rovell with whom J. Cunyon Gordon, Jenner & Block, Gerardo A. Carlos, Carlos & Troncoso, Carlos Latimer, Ramirez, Latimer & Biaggi, were on brief, for plaintiffs, appellants.

Rossell Barrios-Amy with whom Samuel T. Cespedes, Ana Matilde Nin, McConnell Valdes Kelley Sifre Griggs & Ruiz-Suria, were on brief, for defendants, appellees.

Before BREYER, Chief Judge, CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge, and COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge.


COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge.

Appellants challenge the district court's decision to dismiss this case under the abstention-like doctrine established in Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States, 424 U.S. 800, 96 S.Ct. 1236, 47 L.Ed.2d 483 (1976), which permits federal courts to decline jurisdiction in favor of parallel state litigation for reasons of "wise judicial administration," id. at 818, 96 S.Ct...

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