United States v. Mellon Bank, N. A., and Milton F. Meissner, Intervenor

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that “resolution of the criminal case may moot, clarify, or otherwise affect various contentions in the civil case”
• holding that “[i]t was clearly within the power of the district court to balance ‘competing interests’ and decide that judicial economy would best be served by a stay of civil proceedings.”
• affirming the district court’s decision that judicial economy was best served by granting a stay of the civil case
• finding that the district court did not abuse its discretion in staying the civil action because there was a possibility that the defendant may exploit civil discovery to advance his criminal case due to the substantial overlap in the civil matter and the criminal case
• “[A] notice of deficiency is a jurisdictional prerequisite for a taxpayer’s suit in the Tax Court.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).