Opinion ID: 433759
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Effect of the English Injunctions

Text: 91 The district court's injunction was within its discretion even though the United Kingdom courts have issued in personam injunctions stopping Laker from proceeding against British Airways and British Caledonian. Long experience derived from this country's federal system teaches that a forum state may, 82 but need not, 83 stay its own proceedings in response to an antisuit injunction against a party before the court. This is consistent with the general rule permitting concurrent proceedings on transitory causes of action. 84 In extreme cases it may even be necessary to issue a counterinjunction to thwart another state's attempt to assert exclusive jurisdiction over a matter legitimately subject to concurrent jurisdiction. 85 92 In suits involving states, even the Full Faith and Credit Clause does not compel recognition of an antisuit injunction. In Pacific Employers Insurance Co. v. Industrial Accident Commission 86 the Supreme Court held that when two states each create an exclusive remedy for a liability which each state has jurisdiction to impose, neither is bound to defer to the other's jurisdiction by enforcing the other jurisdiction's remedy to the exclusion of its own. Although one state may exercise its prescriptive jurisdiction to create an exclusive remedy for an injury, absent some other overriding constitutional stricture, that exclusivity is never so total as to prevent another sovereign from disregarding a foreign remedy in favor of its own administrative scheme tailored to serve its unique needs. 93 The same result is reached here a fortiori, since the mandatory policies of the Full Faith and Credit Clause do not apply to international assertions of exclusive jurisdiction. The antisuit injunction was a necessary and proper vehicle to protect the United States District Court's jurisdiction and prevent the evasion by KLM and Sabena of important domestic laws governing their conduct of business within the United States.