Musah v. Weeks

• Court: District Court, W.D. Washington
• Decided: March 18, 2025
• Docket: 2:25-cv-00113
• Status: Unknown

Opinion

1 District Judge Tana Lin

7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON 8 AT SEATTLE

9 ARAFAT MUSAH, Case No. 2:25-cv-00113-TL 10 Plaintiff, STIPULATED MOTION TO HOLD 11 v. CASE IN ABEYANCE AND [PROPOSED] ORDER 12 JONATHAN WEEKS, et al.,1 Noted for Consideration: 13 Defendants. March 17, 2025

14 15 Plaintiff and Defendants, by and through their counsel of record, pursuant to Federal Rule 16 of Civil Procedure 6 and Local Rules 7(d)(1), 10(g) and 16, hereby jointly stipulate and move to 17 hold this case in abeyance until April 30, 2025. Plaintiff brought this litigation pursuant to the 18 Administrative Procedure Act and Mandamus Act seeking, inter alia, to compel the U.S. 19 Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) to schedule a naturalization interview and 20 adjudicate his N-400, Application for Naturalization. Defendants’ response to the Complaint is 21 currently due on March 28, 2025. The parties are currently working towards a resolution to this 22 23 1 Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 25(d), Defendants substitute Senior Official Performing the Duties of 24 Kika Scott for Ur Mendoza Jaddou and Secretary Kristi Noem for Alejandro Mayorkas. 1 litigation. For good cause, the parties request that the Court hold the case in abeyance until April 2 30, 2025. 3 Courts have “broad discretion” to stay proceedings. Clinton v. Jones, 520 U.S. 681, 706

4 (1997). “[T]he power to stay proceedings is incidental to the power inherent in every court to 5 control the disposition of the causes on its docket with economy of time and effort for itself, for 6 counsel, and for litigants.” Landis v. N. Am. Co., 299 U.S. 248, 254 (1936); see also Fed. R. Civ. 7 P. 1. 8 With additional time, this case may be resolved without the need of further judicial 9 intervention. USCIS has scheduled Plaintiff’s naturalization interview for April 23, 2025. The 10 parties agree that once the interview is conducted that Plaintiff will dismiss this case without 11 prejudice. Accordingly, the parties request this abeyance to allow USCIS to conduct Plaintiff’s 12 interview. 13 As additional time is necessary for this to occur, the parties request that the Court hold

14 the case in abeyance until April 30, 2025. The parties will submit a joint status report on or 15 before April 30, 2025. 16 // 17 18 // 19 20 // 21 22 //

23 24 // 1 DATED this 17th day of March, 2025.

2 Respectfully submitted,

3 TEAL LUTHY MILLER MEENA PALLIPAMU IMMIGRATION Acting United States Attorney LAW, PLLC 4 s/ Michelle R. Lambert s/Meena Pallipamu 5 MICHELLE R. LAMBERT, NYS #4666657 MEENA PALLIPAMU, WSBA #31870 Assistant United States Attorney Meena Pallipamu Immigration Law, PLLC 6 United States Attorney’s Office 4444 Woodland Park Ave. N., Ste. 203 Western District of Washington Seattle, Washington 98103 7 1201 Pacific Avenue, Suite 700 Phone: 206-419-7332 Tacoma, Washington 98402 Email: meena@meenaimmigrationlaw.com 8 Phone: (206) 553-7970 Fax: (206) 553-4067 Attorney for Plaintiffs 9 Email: michelle.lambert@usdoj.gov

10 Attorneys for Defendants

11 I certify that this memorandum contains 280 words, in compliance with the Local Civil Rules. 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21

24 1 [PROPOSED] ORDER 2 The parties having stipulated and agreed, it is hereby so ORDERED. This case shall be 3 held in abeyance until April 30, 2025. The parties shall file a stipulated motion for dismissal or

4 a joint status report on or before April 30, 2025. 5 6 DATED this 18th day of March, 2025. 7 A 8 Tana Lin United States District Judge 9

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