Powell
Powell v. UHG I LLC
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 ZACHARY POWELL, Case No.: 23-cv-86-DMS-KSC
Plaintiff,
ORDER ON JOINT MOTION TO
v. STAY DISCOVERY [Doc. No. 27] UHG I LLC, Defendant. 16 The parties’ Joint Motion for Determination of Discovery Dispute Regarding Discovery Stay (“Joint Motion”) is presently before the Court. Doc. No. 27. Defendant seeks a stay of discovery until the presiding District Judge rules on the pending Motion to Compel Arbitration [Doc. No. 21]. Id. at 4-10. Plaintiff opposes any stay. Id. at 10-14. As set forth in this Order, the request to stay discovery is DENIED. This Court may issue a protective order, including as to a discovery stay, for good cause. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(c). “The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure do not provide for automatic or blanket stays of discovery when a potentially dispositive motion is pending.” Tradebay, LLC v. eBay, Inc., 278 F.R.D. 597, 601 (D.…