Cover v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• granting stay 18 where criminal trial was scheduled and stay was likely to last only three to four months
• granting stay where criminal trial was scheduled and stay was likely 14 to last only three to four months
• “[T]he interests of 14 the Government in protecting its criminal investigation are clearly [a] paramount concern . . . .”
• “some common factual questions may be conclusively 4 determined in the criminal action,” which “would pare down the issues to be determined in the civil case, and 5 serve the interests of judicial economy by narrowing the focus of the action to the benefit of the litigants”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).