United States Second Circuit

The district court abused its discretion in declining to hear plaintiffs' claims based on an illusory threat of "duplicative litigation," where their federal claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Age Discrimination in Employment Act were not identical to claims asserted in their state-court actions, the remedies available for the state-court claims were less extensive than those available for the federal claims asserted in the present actions, and their offers to stay or discontinue their overlapping state-court claims ensured that the litigation of the federal actions would not require duplicative efforts.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/15/2000
• Decided 02/16/2001
• Published 02/16/2001

Judges

• F.I. PARKER, Circuit Judge:, Before FEINBERG, F.I. PARKER, Circuit Judges, and COVELLO, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Jack Yoskowitz, New York, NY, (Jeffrey D. Silverstein, New York, NY, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellant., Norman I. Klein, New York, NY, (Robert S. Getman, Carlet, Garrison & Klein, L.L.P., New York, NY, on the brief), for Defendants-Counter-Claimants-Appellees.