United States First Circuit
Nazario-Lugo v. Caribevision Holdings, Inc., 10-1728
In a suit for breach of an employment contract, the district court's dismissal of the complaint is reversed, where the district court exceeded its discretion in its application of the Colorado River factors to dismiss the case in deference to litigation pending in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, as that litigation did not display exceptional circumstances that would clearly justify departure from the federal court's obligation to exercise jurisdiction in a garden variety federal diversity case requiring only the application of settled principles of state law to an ordinary contract dispute.
Appellate Information
- Decided 02/24/2012
- Published 02/24/2012
Judges
- Howard
Court
- United States First Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Judith Berkan, Ineabelle Santiago Camacho