Blacher

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 MARLON BLACHER, Case No.: 20cv1270-LAB-MDD

Plaintiff,

ORDER GRANTING IN PART

v. DEFENDANTS’ EX PARTE

MOTION TO STAY

RALPH DIAZ, et al.,

Defendants. [ECF No. 24] 16 On February 25, 2021, Defendants filed an Ex Parte Application to Modify the Scheduling Order, requesting that the case be stayed pending Plaintiff’s return to California. ECF No. 24. As noted in the Order Setting Briefing Schedule, the Court construes Defendants’ Ex Parte Application to Modify the Scheduling Order as a motion to stay. See ECF No. 25. Plaintiff filed a response disputing some of the facts regarding his criminal case(s) in Florida, but these facts have no bearing on the motion to stay. See ECF No. 27. Plaintiff also requests that counsel be appointed. Id. at 3. “[T]he power to stay proceedings is incidental to the power inherent in every court to control disposition of the causes on its docket with economy…