Hoopa Valley Tribe v. United States Bureau of Reclamation
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 HOOPA VALLEY TRIBE, Case No. 1:20-cv-01814-DAD-EPG Plaintiff, v. ORDER GRANTING FEDERAL
DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO STAY
UNITED STATES BUREAU OF RECLAMATION, et al., (ECF No. 71) 15 Defendants.
17 Before the Court is the Federal Defendants’ motion to stay the case. (ECF No. 78.) The 18 Federal Defendants request a stay through January 3, 2022 “so that the parties can continue to 19 engage in settlement discussions without the threat of active litigation.” (Id. at 1.) According to 20 the motion, Plaintiff does not oppose the stay. (Id. at 2.) 21 District courts have broad discretion in deciding whether to stay a case. See Landis v. N. 22 Am. Co., 299 U.S. 248, 254 (1936) (“[T]he power to stay proceedings is incidental to the power 23 inherent in every court to control the disposition of the causes on its docket with economy of time 24 and effort for itself, for counsel, and for litigants.”). The moving party has the burden to show that 25 a stay is appropriate. Clinton v. Jones,…