Jennings

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SIMON ORTIZ VARGAS, Case No. 20-cv-5785-PJH Plaintiff,

v. ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO

STAY

DAVID JENNINGS, et al.,

Defendants.

13 Before the court is petitioner Simon Ortiz Vargas’s motion to stay proceedings. The matter is fully briefed and suitable for decision without oral argument. Having read the parties’ papers and carefully considered their arguments and the relevant legal authority, and good cause appearing, the court rules as follows. BACKGROUND The facts of this case are more comprehensively set forth in this court’s order on petitioner’s motion for temporary restraining order. See Dkt. 15 at 1-2. Petitioner was born in Mexico in 1978, and has lived in the United States since 2000. Dkt. 5-2 at 9. He and his wife have been married for 21 years. Id. They have four children, three of whom are US citizens. Id. In 2010, petitioner pled no contest to a misdemeanor charge of…