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Nature of Suit Code: 550
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Civil Rights (U.S. defendant)
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ALASKA

HECTOR HUGO HERNANDEZ,

Plaintiff,

vs.

DARLENE LORD, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 3:19-cv-00151 RRB

ORDER 

GRANTING STAY

(Docket 148)

Plaintiff, Hector Hernandez, moves to stay this matter due to difficulties accessing 

legal materials in light of his quarantine due to COVID-19, among other logistical problems. 

Docket 148.

“A district court has the ability to stay proceedings, or stop action in a case, as part 

of its inherent power to ‘control the disposition of the causes on its docket with economy of time 

and effort for itself, for counsel, and for litigants.’”1 Moreover, to decide if a stay is appropriate,

“courts weigh competing interests, including: (1) the possible damage which may result from the 

granting of a stay; (2) the hardship or inequity which a party may suffer in being required to go 

forward; and (3) the orderly course of justice measured in terms of simplifying or complicating of

issues, proof, and questions of law which could be expected to result from a stay.”2

1

 Hartline v. Nat’l Univ., No. 2:14-CV-00635-KJM-AC, 2017 WL 11441041, at *1 (E.D. Cal. 

Dec. 20, 2017) (citing Landis v. N. Am. Co., 299 U.S. 248, 254 (1936)). 2 Id. (citing CMAX, Inc. v. Hall, 300 F.2d 265, 268 (9th Cir. 1962)).

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Hernandez v. Lord, et al. Case No. 3:19-cv-00151-RRB

Order Granting Stay Page 2

The Court has considered the foregoing factors and concludes that a stay is 

appropriate. This matter is stayed until January 2, 2023. The parties shall file either separate status 

reports or one joint status report on or before January 9, 2023. 

IT IS SO ORDERED this 24th day of August, 2022, at Anchorage, Alaska.

 /s/ Ralph R. Beistline 

RALPH R. BEISTLINE

Senior United States District Judge

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