Sterling National Bank v. A-1 Hotels International, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that even when a party seeks to stay only “particular depositions,” such relief “effectively stops the case in its tracks”
• explaining that a limited stay of some but not all discovery while a criminal matter is pending can “[i]n practice . . . effectively stop[ ] the [civil] case in its tracks”
• commenting on prejudice from delay, in a case that had been delayed for eight months, and denying a stay of the case, in part for that reason
• the interests of non-parties and the public can favor prompt resolution of a civil case, as the public interest in institutions promptly recovering allegedly misappropriated funds is significant
• “[S]ince depositions have not yet taken place, there is no way of measuring with any precision what questions defendants may refuse to answer, or what damage may be done to their position in the civil case by any assertions of privilege they might choose to make.”
• “[S]ince depositions have not yet taken place, there is no way of measuring with any precision what questions defendants may refuse to answer, or what damage may be done to their position in the civil case by any assertions of privilege they might choose to make.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).