United States Second Circuit

A district court may not, consistent with the All Writs Act and the "necessary in aid of its jurisdiction" exception to the Anti-Injunction Act, enjoin a state-court trial in order to avoid delay in the district court's trial.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/18/2004
• Published 10/18/2004

Judges

• JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge., Before:  CABRANES and WESLEY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Kevin Newsom, Alabama Solicitor General (Charles Campbell, Assistant Attorney General, of counsel;  Troy King, Alabama Attorney General, on the brief), Office of the Alabama Attorney General, Montgomery, Alabama, for amicus curiae Alabama Attorney General.


• For Appellees:
  
• J. Michael Rediker, Haskell Slaughter Young & Rediker, LLC, Birmingham, AL (William M. Slaughter, Thomas L. Krebs, Michael K.K. Choy, J. Vernon Patrick, Thomas T. Gallion III, Page A. Poerschke, Vincent J. Graffeo, Haskell Slaughter Young & Rediker, LLC, Birmingham, Alabama;  Leo Kayser III, Haskell Slaughter Young & Rediker, LLC, New York, New York;  John C. Jeffries, Charlottesville, Virginia, of counsel), for Respondents-Appellants., Jay B. Kasner (Susan L. Saltzstein, Cyrus Amir-Mokri, Steven J. Kolleeny, of counsel), Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, New York, New York, for Applicants-Appellees J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., Bank of America Corp., and Banc of America Securities LLC., Martin London (Bruce Birenboim, Brad S. Karp, Eric S. Goldstein, Joyce S. Huang, of counsel), Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, New York, for Applicants-Appellees Citigroup Inc. and Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Eliot Lauer (Michael Moscato, of counsel), Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP, New York, New York, for Applicant-Appellee Arthur Andersen LLP.