JOHN DEERE INS. CO. v. SMITH LIGHTERAGE CO., INC.

No. C96-1189Z.

948 F.Supp. 947 (1996)

JOHN DEERE INSURANCE COMPANY, Through INTERNATIONAL SPECIALTY, INC.; Great America Insurance Company; and Royal Insurance Company of America, Plaintiffs v. SMITH LIGHTERAGE COMPANY, INC., Defendant.

United States District Court, W.D. Washington.

December 10, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James W. Talbot, Bauer, Moynihan & Johnson, Seattle, WA, for Plaintiffs.

Katherine M. Steele and Jeffrey M. Wolf, Steele & Sales, P.S., Seattle, WA, for Defendant.


ORDER

ZILLY, District Judge.

THIS MATTER comes before the Court on defendant's motion to dismiss or, in the alternative, to stay this case pending resolution of a parallel proceeding in Alaska state court, docket no. 8. This motion presents an issue previously unaddressed in the Ninth Circuit: whether a district court should exercise its discretion to entertain actions under the Declaratory Judgment Act involving both federal maritime and state law concerns...

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