Provide Commerce, Inc. v. Hartford Fire Insurance Company
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
10 PROVIDE COMMERCE, INC., Case No. 12-cv-00516-BAS-WVG 11 Plaintiff, ORDER LIFTING STAY
v.
HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, et al., 15 Defendants. 16 This case, which has been pending for over eight years, has been stayed for the past five years. (See ECF No. 124.) The Court recently ordered the parties to file a joint status report addressing the status of this case, including when the parties anticipate the stay can be lifted. (ECF No. 153.) The parties responded and provided a summary of procedural issues and arguments concerning the stay. (ECF No. 154.) For the following reasons, the Court determines a stay is no longer appropriate, lifts the stay, and orders the parties to contact the Magistrate Judge’s chambers to schedule a case management conference. “[T]he power to stay proceedings is incidental to the power inherent in every court to control disposition of the cases on its docket with economy of time and effort for itself, for counsel, and for litigants.” Landis v. N.…