Mendoza

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 8 JARED ANDREW MARTIN, Case No. 1:22-cv-01484-AWI-EPG (PC) Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING MOTION TO TOLL

SCREENING OF COMPLAINT AND

v. DIRECTING THE CLERK OF COURT TO

CLOSE THE CASE

BENJAMIN MENDOZA, et al.,

Defendants. (ECF No. 8) 14 On December 29, 2022, Plaintiff filed a motion to toll the screening of complaint or dismissal without prejudice. (ECF No. 8). In the motion, Plaintiff complains that his grievances are not being properly processed. He asks the Court to “refrain from moving forward until [he] is released from Madera County Jail.” (Id. at 1). “If that option is not available[,] Plaintiff asks the Court to dismiss this action without prejudice.” (Id.). Plaintiff appears to be asking the Court to stay this case until he is released. District courts have broad discretion in deciding whether to stay a case. See Landis v. N. Am. Co., 299 U.S. 248, 254 (1936) (“[T]he power to stay proceedings is incidental to…