LaSala v. Needham & Co., Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that courts have the inherent power to stay a case “pending the outcome of proceedings which bear upon the case”
• noting that a court is firmly within its discretion, in the interest of judicial economy, to enter a stay pending the outcome of proceedings which bear upon the case, even if such proceedings are not necessarily controlling of the action that is to be stayed
• noting that a court is firmly within its discretion, in the interest of judicial economy, to enter a stay pending the outcome of proceedings which bear upon the case, even if such proceedings are not necessarily controlling of the action that is to be stayed
• granting stay when the stay did “not delay the [claims] indefinitely”
• noting the propriety of staying a lawsuit “in light of a concurrently pending federal action (either because the claim arises from the same nucleus of facts or because the pending action would resolve a controlling point of law)” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• “[W]here a higher court is close to settling an issue of law bearing on the action,” a stay is favored.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).