(PC) Mendez v. United States of America
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 FELIPE MENDEZ, JR., 1:17-cv-00555-NONE-JLT (PC) Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S
MOTION TO STAY
v.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, et al., (Doc. 66) Defendants. 16 17 Plaintiff has filed a motion to stay this action until he is released from the Special Housing Unit or for an order to allow plaintiff access to his legal documents. (Doc. 66.) He contends that he has been unable to access these documents since he was placed in the SHU on November 23, 2019. “[T]he 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.” Landis v. N. Am. Co., 299 U.S. 248, 254 (1936); accord Stone v. I.N.S., 514 U.S. 386, 411 (1995) (“[W]e have long recognized that courts have inherent power to stay proceedings and ‘to control the disposition of the causes on its docket with economy of time and effort…