Rural Green Truck I Limited Partnership v. Jaddou

• Court: District Court, W.D. Washington
• Decided: March 12, 2024
• Docket: 2:24-cv-00143
• Status: Unknown

Opinion

1 District Judge Ricardo S. Martinez

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

9 RURAL GREEN I LIMITED Case No. 2:24-cv-00143-RSM 10 PARTNERSHIP, et al., Plaintiffs, STIPULATED MOTION TO HOLD 11 v. CASE IN ABEYANCE AND ORDER 12 UR MENDOZA JADDOU, et al., Noted for Consideration: 13 Defendants. March 11, 2024

14 15 Plaintiffs and Defendants, by and through their counsel of record, pursuant to Federal 16 Rule of Civil Procedure 6 and Local Rules 7(d)(1), 10(g), and 16, jointly stipulate and move to 17 stay these proceedings through June 7, 2024. Plaintiffs 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 adjudicate their Form I-956Fs, 20 Applications for Approval of an Investment in Commercial Enterprise. Defendants’ response to 21 the complaint is currently due on April 8, 2024. The parties are currently working towards a 22 resolution to this litigation. For good cause, the parties request that the Court continue to hold 23 the case in abeyance until June 7, 2024. 24 1 Courts have “broad discretion” to stay proceedings. Clinton v. Jones, 520 U.S. 681, 706 2 (1997). “[T]he power to stay proceedings is incidental to the power inherent in every court to 3 control the disposition of the causes on its docket with economy of time and effort for itself, for

4 counsel, and for litigants.” Landis v. N. Am. Co., 299 U.S. 248, 254 (1936); see also Fed. R. 5 Civ. P. 1. 6 With additional time, this case may be resolved without the need of further judicial 7 intervention. On March 8, 2024, USCIS issued Notices of Intent to Deny (“NOIDs”) to 8 Plaintiffs for both Form I-956F applications at issue. Plaintiffs must respond to the NOIDs by 9 April 9, 2024. After receipt of the responses, USCIS will review and take further action on the 10 Form I-956 applications. 11 As additional time is necessary for this to occur, the parties request that the Court hold 12 the case in abeyance through June 7, 2024. The parties will submit a joint status report on or 13 before June 7, 2024.

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24 // 1 DATED this 11th day of March, 2024. 2 Respectfully submitted,

3 TESSA M. GORMAN ANDERSSON CROSS BORDER LAW United States Attorney CORP. 4 /s/Michelle R. Lambert s/ K. David Andersson 5 MICHELLE R. LAMBERT, NYS #4666657 K. DAVID ANDERSSON, WSBA# 24730 Assistant United States Attorney 1155 N. State Street, Suite 619 6 United States Attorney’s Office Bellingham, Washington 98225 Western District of Washington Phone: (360) 318-6486 7 1201 Pacific Avenue, Suite 700 Email: kda@acblc.ca Tacoma, Washington 98402 8 Phone: (253) 428-3824 Attorney for Plaintiffs Email: michelle.lambert@usdoj.gov 9 Attorneys for Defendants 10 I certify that this memorandum contains 289 11 words, in compliance with the Local Civil Rules. 12

24 1 ORDER The case is held in abeyance until June 7, 2024. The parties shall submit a joint status 2 report on or before June 7, 2024. It is so ORDERED. 3

4 DATED this 12th day of March, 2024. 5

6 A 7 RICARDO S. MARTINEZ 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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