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How courts have described this case

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

• concluding “that this matter is one of those extraordinary cases in which 2 (...continued) intra-district transfer in a district which had not adopted its own divisional venue practices”
• stating that trial court has wide discretion over the “scope and pace of discovery”
• noting that the court’s power to stay a pending matter “has been held to provide the court the ‘general discretionary power to stay proceedings before it in control of its docket and in the interests of justice’”
• considering appropriateness of stay in context of 21 U.S.C. § 881(i)
• reviewing pleadings in assessing the propriety of a stay under 21 U.S.C. § 881(i), which requires a stay of a civil forfeiture proceeding upon filing of an indictment or information “related” to that proceeding and a good cause showing
• “[D]iscretionary stays . . . will be reversed when they are immoderate or of an indefinite duration.” (internal citation and quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).