Opinion ID: 157370
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Heading: The Colorado River Doctrine Is Applicable

Text: 27 The Colorado River Doctrine controls when deciding, as we must here, whether a district court should have stayed or dismissed a federal suit pending the resolution of a parallel state court proceeding. See Colorado River, 424 U.S. at 817-18, 96 S.Ct. 1236; Quackenbush, 517 U.S. at 717, 116 S.Ct. 1712 (citing Colorado River, 424 U.S. at 800, 96 S.Ct. 1236 for the proposition that federal courts have the power to refrain from hearing ... cases which are duplicative of a pending state proceeding). In other words, the Colorado River Doctrine was adopted to avoid duplicative litigation. See generally Chemerinsky, supra, §§ 14.1-.4 (providing a critical analysis of the history, basis, and rationale of the Colorado River Doctrine).