Bechtel Corporation and Bechtel Power Corporation v. Local 215, Laborers' International Union of North America, Afl-Cio

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• holding that “the possibility” of relief in an alternate forum resolving the issues before the court “is sufficient justification to warrant the stay.”
• holding that a district court has broad power to stay proceedings in the exercise of its sound discretion where one lawsuit may substantially affect it or be dispositive of the issues in another lawsuit
• stating that a district court may “hold one lawsuit in abeyance to abide the outcome of another which may substantially affect it or be dispositive of the issues”
• quoting Landis v. North American Co., 299 U.S. 248, 254 (1936
• district court stay of action pending arbitration affirmed — no mention of the Act
• “In the exercise of its sound discretion, a court may hold one lawsuit in abeyance to abide the outcome of another which may substantially affect it or be dispositive of the issues.”

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