Baker Farming Company, LLC v. United States

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

8 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 BAKER FARMING COMPANY, LLC, Case No. 1:24-cv-01120-SAB 11 Plaintiff, ORDER STAYING CASE AND SETTING DEADLINE v. AUGUST 29, 2025 DEADLINE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

14 Defendants. 15 Before the Court is the parties’ stipulated motion to stay this case in light of a pending settlement agreement. The parties proffer that they have negotiated an agreement to resolve this case and that counsel for the United States has recommended this agreement to the final governmental decisionmaker. Once the agreement is approved, the parties state that they will file dispositional documents. The parties propose a date of December 12, 2025, to file dispositional documents or file a status report. A 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 America Co., 299 U.S. 248, 254 (1936). A stay is…