St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance v. Nonprofits United

MEMORANDUM **

St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company (“St.Paul”) appeals the district court’s order staying its federal declaratory relief action against Nonprofits United (“Nonprofits”) and Aon Risk Services, Inc., of Northern California Insurance Services (“Aon”), due to a pending state court action between the parties. 1 We have juris *538 diction to review the propriety of the stay pursuant to 12 U.S.C. § 1291 . See Wilton v. Seven Falls Co., 515 U.S. 277, 280-81 , 115 S.Ct. 2137 , 132 L.Ed.2d 214 (1995) (“a district court’s order staying federal proceedings in favor of pending state litigation is a ‘final decisio[n]’ appealable under 28 U.S.C. § 1291”) (alteration in the original) (quoting Moses H. Cone Mem’l Hosp. v. Mercury Constr. Corp., 460 U.S. 1, 10 , 103 S.Ct. 927 , 74 L.Ed.2d 765 (1983)). We affirm.

Although the district court issued the stay under both Colorado River Water Conservation Dist. v. United States, 424 U.S. 800 , 96 S.Ct. 1236 , 47 L.Ed.2d 483 (1976), and, alternatively, Brillhart v. Excess Ins. Co., 316 U.S. 491 , 62 S.Ct. 1173 , 86 L.Ed. 1620 (1942), St. Paul only challenges the district court’s stay under the abstention doctrine of Colorado…