# The Travelers Insurance Company v. Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation, Inc.

> Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · July 29, 1993 · 996 F.2d 774

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9484387

## Case

- **Full name:** The TRAVELERS INSURANCE COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. LOUISIANA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION, INC., Et Al., Defendants-Appellees
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- **Decided:** July 29, 1993
- **Citations:** 996 F.2d 774; 1993 U.S. App. LEXIS 19402; 1993 WL 258782
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Garwood
- **Judges:** Johnson, Garwood, Jones
- **Cited by:** 154 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- explaining that as a “general rule,” federal courts are barred from entertaining declaratory judgment actions where, unlike here, “a declaratory defendant has previously filed a cause of action in state court against the declaratory plaintiff” (emphasis added)
- finding that Anti-Injunction Act did not bar relief because there was neither a state court action against the declaratory plaintiff nor a state court action involving the same issues as the declaratory action
- explaining that, where the three authority factors are met, “the issuance of a declaratory judgment . . . would be antithetical to the noble principles of federalism and comity”
- stating that “the factors set out in Colorado River ... are inapplicable in declaratory judgment actions.”
- stating that avoidance of multiple lawsuits is legitimate reason for bringing declaratory judgment action

## Opinion text

GARWOOD, Circuit Judge,
specially concurring:
I concur in Judge Johnson’s careful opinion, and write separately only to emphasize *780 my understanding that we do not thereby speak to what the result would be had not “Miss Hurdle, in essence, abandoned” her “state case” and “waived any right to assert that her state action took precedence over Travelers’ federal action.”

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