(PC) Micenheimer v. Kern Valley State Prison

I. BACKGROUND

22 Plaintiff is a prisoner proceeding pro se in a civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 23 1983. On December 17, 2020, plaintiff filed a motion for stay of the proceedings in this case. 24 (ECF No. 29.)

II. MOTION FOR STAY

26 The court has inherent authority to manage the cases before it. Landis v. N. Am. Co., 299 U.S. 248, 254-55 (1936) (“[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. How this can best be done calls for the exercise of judgment which must weigh competing interests and maintain an even balance.”) Stays of proceedings in federal court, including stays of discovery, are committed to the discretion of the trial court. See, e.g., Jarvis v. Regan, 833 F.2d 149, 155 (9th Cir. 1987). 6 Plaintiff requests a stay of the proceedings in this action because events at the prison have 7 interfered with his ability to comply with the court’s May 13, 2020 order requiring him to file a 8 Second Amended Complaint. On July 6, 2020, Plaintiff was granted…