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raising Colorado River doctrine for the first time on appeal and instructing district court to stay action upon remand
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Nos. 85-1554 — 85-1556.
Argued July 8, 1985. Submitted August 28, 1985.
Decided September 21, 1987.
Crosby, Heafey, Roach May, Peter W. Davis, Oakland, Cal., Arnold I. Weber, William E. Saul, and Claude E. Kolm, and Heller, Ehrman, White McAuliffe, Weyman I. Lundquist, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiffs-appellants.
Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Robertson Falk, Dirk M. Schenkkan, and Julian O. Standen, Deputy Atty. Gen., San Francisco, Cal., for defendants-appellees.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California; Spencer M. Williams, District Judge, Presiding.
Before FERGUSON, NORRIS and WIGGINS, Circuit Judges.
We deferred submission of the petitions for rehearing in this case pending the Supreme Court's decision in Burlington N.R.R. v. Oklahoma Tax Comm'n, ___ U.S. ___, 107 S.Ct. 1855, 95 L.Ed.2d 404 (1987). The petitions for rehearing are now granted, and we vacate our disposition, published at 795 F.2d 1442. We reverse and remand to the district court for proceedings consistent with Burlington Northern.
REVERSED and REMANDED.