Lindsey's v. Smith

How courts have described this case

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• finding that the incidental burden and cost of proceeding in the litigation fell “far short of ‘a clear case of hardship or inequity’”
• noting that courts must be “mindful that the stay of a civil proceeding constitutes an extraordinary remedy” and that a party seeking a stay must establish the stay is warranted (citations and internal quotations omitted)
• noting that financial hardship may rise to a level of undue prejudice
• noting that financial hardship may rise to a level of undue prejudice
• identifying factors weighed by the Court in determining whether to grant a stay
• “District courts possess inherent discretion to stay a proceeding whenever ‘the interests of justice’ mandate ‘such action.’” (quoting U.S. v. Kordel, 397 U.S. 1, 12 n. 27 (1970))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).