Supreme Court of New Jersey January 29, 2008 (Sensient Colors Inc. v. Allstate Insurance)

Justice ALBIN

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The proper functioning of our federal system requires that courts of sister states, when appropriate, extend comity to one another. In this appeal, with similar lawsuits in two different state court systems, we must determine the legal principles that

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govern when a New Jersey court should defer to another jurisdiction’s courts.