Holding that to demonstrate their entitlement to injunctive relief the plaintiffs must sufficiently allege, among other things, "a substantial likelihood of success on the merits" and that "irreparable injury will be suffered unless the injunction issues"
Holding that "[t]he ruling on the stay involved an exercise of discretion, and [that the Tenth Circuit] focuse on the question whether the appellants have carried the weighty burden of showing an abuse of discretion"
Holding All Writs Act "permits a district court to enjoin actions in state court where necessary to prevent relitigation of an existing federal judgment"
Holding that the first-to-file rule is "not intended to be rigid, mechanical, or inflexible, but should be applied in a manner serving sound judicial administration"
Holding that "the court which first obtains jurisdiction should be allowed to first decide issues of venue," but that this "does not necessarily mean that it should decide the merits of the case"
Applying Missouri contract law in rejecting an "intertwined" theory of estoppel as a basis for allowing a signatory to an arbitration agreement to compel arbitration against a nonsignatory
Holding that the principle articulated in Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137, for the application of writs of mandamus is currently preserved by congressional authorization in 28 U.S.C. § 1361
28 U.S.C. § 1651 Cited 11,210 times 60 Legal Analyses
Granting us the power to "issue all writs necessary or appropriate in aid of [our] . . . jurisdiction[] and agreeable to the usages and principles of law"
Fed. R. Civ. P. 3 Cited 3,041 times 5 Legal Analyses
Stating that once the inmate has filed his motion with the clerk, "[t]he clerk must file the motion and enter it on the criminal docket of the case in which the challenged judgment was entered"