(PC) Mundy v. Sacramento County Jail Medical Staff

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 STANLEY W. MUNDY, No. 1:22-cv-00401-KES-SAB (PC) Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S MOTION

FOR STAY OF PROCEEDINGS

v. (ECF No. 60) SACRAMENTO COUNTY JAIL MEDICAL STAFF, et al., 15 Defendants. 16 Plaintiff Stanley A. Mundy is proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis in this civil rights action filed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Currently before the Court is Plaintiff’s motion for a ninety day stay of the proceedings, filed December 9, 2024. (ECF No. 60.) The district court “has broad discretion to stay proceedings as an incident to its power to control its own docket.” Clinton v. Jones, 520 U.S. 681, 706 (1997) (citing Landis v. North American Co., 299 U.S. 248, 254 (1936)). A stay is discretionary and the “party requesting a stay bears the burden of showing that the circumstances justify an exercise of that discretion.” Nken v. Holder, 556 U.S. 418, 433–34 (2009). “Generally, stays should not be indefinite in nature.” Dependable Highway Exp.,…