Bentley
Bentley v. NaviHealth, Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 JILL KATHLEEN BENTLEY, Case No.: 19-CV-1298 JLS (WVG)
Plaintiff,
ORDER GRANTING JOINT
v. MOTION TO STAY PENDING
MEDIATION
NAVIHEALTH, INC., and DOES 1-10,
inclusive, (ECF No. 12) Defendant.
17 Presently before the Court is the Parties’ Joint Motion to Stay Pending Mediation. 18 ECF No. 12. The Parties represent that they have voluntarily agreed to mediate this 19 litigation and the first available date for the Parties and their mediator is March 12, 2020. 20 Id. at 3. The Parties request a stay of the entire matter until March 19, 2020, and propose 21 to jointly report to the Court the results of the mediation. Id. at 4. 22 “District courts have inherent authority to stay proceedings before them.” Rohan ex 23 rel. Gates v. Woodford, 334 F.3d 803, 817 (9th Cir. 2003), abrogated on other grounds by 24 Ryan v. Gonzales, 568 U.S. 57 (2013). “[T]he power to stay proceedings is incidental to 25 the power inherent in every…