DePalma v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• observing that discovery should be stayed when “there are no factual issues in need of further immediate exploration, and the issues before the Court are purely questions of law that are potentially dispositive”
• noting that discovery should be stayed where abuse is likely
• denying one defendant’s motion to stay discovery where the other defendants did not seek a stay, had not filed dispositive motions, and were engaging in discovery
• in assessing good cause, courts look to “the particular circumstances and posture of each case.”
• “[T]he federal district courts have discretion to impose 15 a stay of discovery pending the determination of dispositive motions[.]”
• “Discovery should be stayed … only when there are no factual issues in need of further immediate exploration, and the issues before the Court are purely questions of law that are potentially dispositive.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).