The Estate of Raymond Vogelman v. County of San Diego

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 12 THE ESTATE OF RAYMOND Case No. 24-cv-0234-BAS-MMP VOGELMAN, by and through its 14 successor-in-interest J. Leslie Crawford; ORDER GRANTING PARTIES’ and J. LESLIE CRAWFORD, JOINT MOTION (ECF No. 15)

Plaintiffs, v. COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO, ANTHONY RAY, WILLIAM GORE, and DOES 1– 19 31, 20 Defendants.

Before the Court is the parties’ Joint Motion for an Order Staying Proceedings and Tolling the Statutes of Limitations Pending the Conclusion of the Homicide Investigation of Decedent’s Death (“Joint Motion”). (ECF No. 15.) In their Joint Motion, the parties request the Court stay the case while a criminal investigation into the decedent’s death is pending. (Id.) “A district court has discretionary power to stay proceedings in its own court.” Lockyer v. Mirant, 398 F.3d 1098, 1109 (9th Cir. 2005) (citing Landis v. N. Am. Co., 299 U.S. 248, 254 (1936)). “[T]he power to stay proceedings is incidental to the power inherent in every court to…