Court’s decision in Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States, 424 U.S. 800, 96 S.Ct. 1236, 47 L.Ed.2d 483 (1976), had severely curtailed the district courts’ discretion to defer to state litigation in most kinds of cases, including declaratory judgment actions. Mobil Oil, 772 F.2d at 542. Abstention under Colorado River is permissible only in “exceptional” circumstances. See 424 U.S. at 818, 96 S.Ct. at 1246. Mobil Oil, however, must be applied circumspectly. It did not discuss post-Colorado River authority that has continued to support the district courts’ special jurisdictional discretion as to declaratory judgment suits independent of the Colorado River analysis. See, e.g., Mission Ins. Co. v. Puritan Fashions Corp., 706 F.2d 599, 601-02 & nn. 1 & 3 (5th Cir.1983) (<HOLDING>); 10A Wright & Miller & Kane, supra, § 2759, at
holding that the petitioners traffic difficulties did not constitute exceptional circumstances holding the fourteenth amendment does not apply to the actions of the federal government holding that the exceptional circumstances test does not apply to declaratory judgment actions holding that moses conecolorado river factors do not apply to declaratory judgment actions holding that confusion as to a hearing time does not amount to exceptional circumstances