United States Ninth Circuit

In a suit for breach of a construction contract, the district court's order, enjoining a Minnesota court from entering judgment in favor of defendant for repair costs, violates the Anti-Injunction Act.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/04/2004
• Decided 10/24/2005
• Published 10/24/2005

Judges

• CLIFTON, Circuit Judge:, Before: REINHARDT, SILVERMAN and CLIFTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mike Hatch, Attorney General, David Woodward, Assistant Attorney General, for the State of Minnesota.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kell M. Damsgaard (argued) and Brian W. Shaffer, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;  Janet M. Schroer, Hoffman, Hart & Wagner, Portland, Oregon, for the respondent-appellant., Michael H. Simon (argued) and Jeffrey C. Dobbins, Perkins Coie LLP, Portland, Oregon, for the defendant-appellee.