In today’s lone published opinion, CA3 affirmed a district court ruling declining jurisdiction over a suit under the Declaratory Judgment Act. The court answered in the affirmative a “question of the ‘outer boundar[y]’ of a district court’s discretion under the DJA, specifically whether a district court may decline jurisdiction over a declaratory judgment action when there are no parallel state proceedings.”

The case was Reifer v. Westport Insurance Corp. Opinion by Van Antwerpen, joined by Fuentes and Greenberg. Arguing counsel, both out-of-circuit, were Christopher Wadley for the insurance company and David Knauer for Reiffer.