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063454P.pdf   01/02/2008  Royal Indemnity  v.  Apex Oil Company
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  06-3454
                          and No:  06-3461
                          and No:  06-3469
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with Loken, Chief Judge, and
   Benton, Circuit Judge]
   Civil case - Declaratory Judgments. District court did not err in
   determining that the claim in the suit was essentially for a declaratory
   judgment, and did not abuse its discretion in determining that it should
   abstain from the suit under Wilton v. Seven Falls Co., 515 U.S. 277
   (1995) and Brillhart v. Excess Insurance Co. of America, 316 U.S. 491
   (1942) in order to allow a parallel state court suit to proceed; however,
   the court should have stayed the matter rather than dismissing it, and the
   matter is remanded so that the court can enter a stay order.