Houghtaling v. Virginia

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that the district 11 court did not abuse its discretion by denying the defendant’s motion to stay where the 12 || district court had considered its “interest in clearing its docket”
• noting burden on depositors of savings and loan if civil proceedings against director of savings and loan are stayed pending possible criminal proceedings
• setting forth similar factors considered in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• affirming denial of stay when civil action had been pending for a year
• upholding the district court’s stay, 18 in part, because “the action had been pending for a year, and the court had an interest in 19 clearing its docket”
• “A court may decide to stay the civil case when 13 required by the interests of justice.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).