by the stay entered in their case because the outcome of the state case will not determine their federal suit. As such, the stay is not final and thus not appealable. In addition, we deny issuance of a writ of mandamus. 1 . Apparently, the Wildermans' suit is part of a several-pronged strategy by Summy to prevail by any means necessary. Summy's Texas attorney, the one defending him against Cooper & Scully, is also the Wildermans’ attorney in this suit. Summy's attorney is also representing another set of Summy's clients in a mirror-image suit, this one filed in Illinois. We note that such forum-shopping subverts the policies of the Declaratory Judgment Act. Cf. Nat'l Foam, Inc. v. Williams Fire & Hazard Control, Inc., No. CIV. A. 97-3105, 1997 WL 700496, at *7 (E.D.Pa. Oct. 29, 1997)
recognizing that the declaratory judgment act should not be used as a tool for forum shopping holding that the first filed rule should not be mechanically applied when a declaratory judgment action is filed in anticipation of a coercive action holding that a district court may dismiss a declaratory judgment action that was filed in anticipation of  impending litigation and motivated solely by considerations of forum shopping holding that declaratory relief is not appropriate for determination of rights in anticipation of enforcement action that may never occur holding that in a declaratory judgment action it is the character of the impending action not the plaintiffs defense that determines whether there is federal question jurisdiction