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Nature of Suit Code: 791
Nature of Suit: Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
Cause of Action: 29:1001 E.R.I.S.A.: Employee Retirement

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

LYNN MORRIS, et al.,

Plaintiffs,

v.

DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY HEALTH 

SYSTEM, et al.,

Defendants.

Case No. 14-cv-04681-VC 

ORDER GRANTING IN PART MOTION 

FOR STAY

Re: Dkt. No. 37

The motion to stay the case is granted in part. The case is stayed until at least June 16, 

2015. A stay until this date is appropriate given the possibility that an agreement to sell the 

hospitals will moot the lawsuit. The plaintiffs have not adequately explained how a stay of this 

length (or, for that matter, a longer stay to allow the Ninth Circuit to issue a ruling in Rollins v. 

Dignity Health, which would likely resolve the question presented here) would prejudice them.

And the plaintiffs' argument that there is an urgent need for resolution of the question whether the 

pension plan is a "church plan" within the meaning of ERISA is undermined by their failure to 

seek interim relief in the nearly five months since they filed this lawsuit. 

A case management conference will take place on June 16, 2015. The parties should file a 

joint case management statement 7 days before the conference. If the case is not moot by that 

time, the Court will determine whether the stay should be extended until the Ninth Circuit issues 

its decision in Rollins.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: March 13, 2015

______________________________________

Vince Chhabria

United States District Judge

Case 3:14-cv-04681-VC Document 49 Filed 03/13/15 Page 1 of 1