Jones v. City of Virginia Beach

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• holding that stay more appropriate than dismissal where public interest is served by reasonably prompt adjudication of issues
• concluding that if no agency ruling is made within reasonable time frame, agency or party benefitting from stay should be required to show why the stay should not be dissolved
• admonishing agency not to address issue “in a leisurely manner when, under the circumstances, it should be on a ‘fast-track’ instead”
• the judicial hand should be stayed pending reference of a plaintiffs claims to an agency
• same; action ordered stayed eighteen months pending consideration by BIA of group’s claim for federal acknowledgment
• question of tribal existence within special competence of Bureau of Indian Affairs [BIA]; BIA’s decision will aid District Court in deciding tribe’s claim under Non-Intercourse Act

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