SOUTHWEST DIVERSIFIED, INC. v. CITY OF BRISBANE

No. C-85-3334 EFL.

652 F.Supp. 788 (1986)

SOUTHWEST DIVERSIFIED, INC., Visitacion Associates, Plaintiffs, v. The CITY OF BRISBANE, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. California.

August 28, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul R. Hamilton, Karen J. Lee, Memel Jacobs, Pierno, Gersh & Ellsworth, Los Angeles, Cal., James Longtin, Westlake Village, Cal., Special Counsel, Burton J. Goldstein, Goldstein, Barceloux & Goldstein, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiffs.

Howard N. Ellman, John Hoffman, Ellman, Burke & Cassidy, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff Visitacion Associates.

Ann Broadwell, Thomas R. Adams, Adams, Broadwell & Russell, San Mateo, Cal., Robert L. Henn, Thomas J. Mellon Jr., Michele R. McNellis, Henn, Etzel & Mellon, Inc., San Francisco, Cal., Carl McConnell, Packard, Mellberg & McConnell, Palo Alto, Cal., for all defendants.

Alice Q. Howard, Oakland, Cal., for Non-Party Friends of Endangered Species.

Michael Freund, Berkeley, Cal., for Non-Party Alice Howard.

Jean K. McCown, Blase, Valentine & Klein, Palo Alto, Cal., for Committee To Save San Bruno Mountain.


ORDER STAYING EXERCISE OF JURISDICTION PENDING RESOLUTION OF UNSETTLED STATE LAW ISSUES

LYNCH, District Judge.

Mindful that abstention "is an extraordinary and narrow exception to the duty of a District Court to adjudicate a controversy properly before it," Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States, 424 U.S. 800, 813, 96 S.Ct. 1236, 1244, 47 L.Ed.2d 483...

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