United States Seventh Circuit

Where federal claims are distinct from and independent of other claims brought in a foreign forum, and the foreign action is therefore unlikely to dispose of them, the federal and foreign actions are not parallel and abstention by the federal court is improper.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/07/2000
• Decided 04/27/2001
• Published 04/27/2001

Judges

• BAUER, Circuit Judge., Before BAUER, MANION, and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Richard M. Franklin (Argued), Baker & McKenzie, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Konstantinos Armiros (Argued), Levenfeld, Eisenberg, Janger, Glassberg & Samothy, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.