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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 AMERICAN HERITAGE RAILWAYS, Case No.: 3:24-cv-01802-CAB-JLB INC., et al.,

ORDER DENYING MOTION TO

Plaintiffs, STAY & MOTION FOR v. RECONSIDERATION

BRADLEY ARTHUR HIROU, et al., [Doc. Nos. 22, 25] Defendants.

I. MOTION TO STAY

18 Defendant, proceeding pro se, has requested that this Court stay its ruling denying 19 Defendant’s motion to dismiss and granting Plaintiffs’ preliminary injunction pending 20 Defendant’s appeal to the Ninth Circuit. [Doc. No. 20.] A stay pending appeal is an 21 “extraordinary” remedy. Citizens for Resp. & Ethics in Washington v. Fed. Election 22 Comm’n, 904 F.3d 1014, 1017 (D.C. Cir. 2018) (per curiam). To obtain such exceptional 23 relief, the stay applicant must (1) make a “strong showing that [it] is likely to succeed on 24 the merits” of the appeal; (2) demonstrate that it will be “irreparably injured” before the 25 appeal concludes; (3) show that issuing a stay will not…