Landis v. North American Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that the related case “may not 12 settle every question of fact and law” in the stayed federal action
• recognizing that the related case “may not 12 settle every question of fact and law” in the stayed federal action
• holding that the court holds an inherent power to “control the disposition of the causes on its docket with economy of time and effort for itself, for counsel, and for litigants.”
• observing that courts “must guard against depriving the processes of justice of their suppleness of adaptation to varying conditions”
• stating that the decision to stay “is one left to the ... trial court ... as a matter of its discretion to control its docket”
• holding that “the power to stay proceedings is incidental to the power inherent in every court to control the disposition of the causes in its docket with economy of time and effort for itself, for counsel[,] and for litigants.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).