Securities and Exchange Commission v. Robert Chestman, United States of America, Intervenor-Appellee

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• concluding that it was not an abuse of discretion to permit the government to intervene, either as of right or on a permissive basis, to seek a stay of civil discovery in parallel SEC action
• noting that district court can enter an order staying discovery sua sponte
• “The government ha[s] a discernible interest in intervening in order to prevent discovery in a civil case from being used to circumvent the more limited scope of discovery in [a related] criminal matter.”
• upholding trial court’s grant of intervention

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