Lowenberg
Lowenberg v. Illinois Mutual Life Insurance Company
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 FRANK LOWENBERG, et al., Case No. 21-cv-09739-HSG Plaintiffs, ORDER DENYING MOTION TO STAY Vv. Re: Dkt. No. 61 ILLINOIS MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE
COMPANY,
Defendant.
Before the Court is Defendant’s motion to stay the case pending the resolution of a later- 14 || filed related case, Lowenberg v. Illinois Mutual Life Insurance Co., No. 4:22-cv-5329-HSG. Dkt. || No. 61. Plaintiff opposes the motion. See Dkt. No. 62. The Court finds that this matter is a 16 || appropriate for disposition without oral argument and the matter is deemed submitted. See Civil L.R. 7-1(b). Under the United States Supreme Court’s Landis decision, a district court has 18 || “discretionary power to stay proceedings in its own court.” Lockyer v. Mirant Corp., 398 F.3d 1098, 1109 (9th Cir. 2005) (citing Landis v. N. Am. Co., 299 U.S. 248, 254 (1936)). Having 20 || reviewed the parties’ arguments, the Court finds no…