(PC) Mendoza v. California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JORGE MENDOZA, Case No. 1:19-cv-01713-LJO-SAB (PC)

Plaintiff,

ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S

v. MOTION TO STAY THE PROCEEDINGS

CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND (ECF No. 11) REHABILITATIONS, et al.,

Defendants.

17 Jorge Mendoza (“Plaintiff”), a state prisoner, is appearing pro se and in forma pauperis in this civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Currently before the Court is Plaintiff’s motion to stay the proceedings, filed January 15, 2020. The United States Supreme Court has indicated that “the power to stay proceedings is incidental to the power inherent in every court to control the disposition of the causes on its docket with economy of time and effort for itself, for counsel, and for litigants. How this can best be done calls for the exercise of judgment, which must weigh competing interests and maintain an even balance. Landis v. North American Co., 299 U.S. 248, 254-55 (1936). “[T]he proponent of the…