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Nature of Suit Code: 893
Nature of Suit: Environmental Matters
Cause of Action: 42:9607 Real Property Tort to Land

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

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CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF TOXIC 

SUBSTANCES CONTROL and the TOXIC 

SUBSTANCES CONTROL ACCOUNT,

Plaintiffs,

v.

JIM DOBBAS, INC. a California 

corporation; CONTINENTAL RAIL, 

INC., a Delaware corporation; 

DAVID VAN OVER, individually; 

PACIFIC WOOD PRESERVING, a 

dissolved California 

corporation; WEST COAST WOOD 

PRESERVING, LLC., a Nevada 

limited liability company; and 

COLLINS & AIKMAN PRODUCTS, LLC, 

a Delaware limited liability 

company,

Defendants.

No. 2:14-CV-00595 WBS EFB

ORDER RE: MOTION TO STAY

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Before the court is Century Indemnity Company 

("Century"), Allianz Underwriters Insurance Company, Chicago 

Insurance Company, and Fireman's Fund Insurance Company 

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(collectively, "Allianz") and The Continental Insurance Company 

("Continental") (collectively, “Proposed Intervenors”) motion to 

temporarily stay proceedings in this court as they appeal the

denial of their motions to intervene and vacate C&A Products’

default. (Docket No. 244.) 

A federal court can stay a proceeding pending the 

outcome of an interlocutory appeal. See Nken v. Holder, 556 U.S. 

418, 421 (2009). The power to stay proceedings is “incidental to 

the power inherent in every court to control the disposition of 

the cases on its docket with economy of time and effort for 

itself, for counsel, and for litigants.” Landis v. N. Am. Co., 

229 U.S. 248, 254 (1936). In the interests of judicial economy 

and based on the court’s determination that minimal, if any, 

prejudice to plaintiff would result from a stay, the court will 

grant the motion to stay pending appeal.

Accordingly, all proceedings in this case are hereby 

STAYED pending Proposed Intervenors’ appeal. The Status 

Conference set for March 2, 2020 (Docket No. 239) is VACATED. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: February 25, 2020

 

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