Singh v. Jaddou

Opinion

1 District Judge Tana Lin

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

9 JATINDER SINGH, Case No. 2:25-cv-00012-TL 10 Plaintiff, STIPULATED MOTION TO HOLD 11 v. CASE IN ABEYANCE AND [PROPOSED] ORDER 12 KIKA SCOTT, et al.,1 Noted for Consideration: 13 Defendants. March 5, 2025

14 15 Pro se Plaintiff and Defendants, pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 6 and Local 16 Rules 7(d)(1), 10(g) and 16, hereby jointly stipulate and move to stay these proceedings until 17 September 5, 2025. Plaintiff brought this litigation pursuant to the Mandamus Act to compel 18 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) to adjudicate his asylum application. 19 Defendants’ response to the Complaint is currently due on March 7, 2025. The parties are 20 currently working towards a resolution to this litigation. For good cause, the parties request that 21 the Court hold the case in abeyance until September 5, 2025. 22 1 Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 25(d), Defendants substitute Senior Official Performing Duties of the 23 Director Kika Scott for former Director Ur M. Jaddou; Attorney General Pamela Bondi for Merrick Garland; Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for Alejandro Mayorkas; and Acting U.S. Attorney Teal 24 Luthy Miller for Tessa M. Gorman. 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. Civ. 5 P. 1. 6 With additional time, this case may be resolved without the need of further judicial 7 intervention. USCIS has scheduled Plaintiff’s asylum interview for May 8, 2025. USCIS agrees 8 to diligently work towards completing the adjudication within 120 days of the interview, absent 9 unforeseen or exceptional circumstances that would require additional time for adjudication. If 10 the adjudication is not completed within that time, USCIS will provide a status report to the 11 Court. Plaintiff will submit all supplemental documents and evidence, if any, to USCIS seven to 12 ten days prior to the interview date. Plaintiff recognizes that failure to submit documents prior to 13 the interview may require the interview to be rescheduled and the adjudication delayed. If

14 needed, Plaintiff will bring an interpreter to the interview, otherwise the interview will need to be 15 rescheduled, and the adjudication delayed. Once the application is adjudicated, Plaintiff will 16 dismiss the case. Accordingly, the parties request this abeyance to allow USCIS to conduct 17 Plaintiff’s asylum interview and then process his asylum application. 18 As additional time is necessary for this to occur, the parties request that the Court hold 19 the case in abeyance until September 5, 2025. The parties will submit a status update on or 20 before September 5, 2025. 21 // 22 //

23 // 24 // 1 DATED this 5th day of March, 2025.

2 Respectfully submitted,

3 TEAL LUTHY MILLER Acting United States Attorney 4 s/ Michelle R. Lambert 5 MICHELLE R. LAMBERT, NYS #4666657 Assistant United States Attorney 6 United States Attorney’s Office Western District of Washington 7 1201 Pacific Avenue, Suite 700 Tacoma, Washington 98402 8 Phone: (206) 553-7970 Fax: (206) 553-4067 9 Email: michelle.lambert@usdoj.gov

10 Attorneys for Defendants

11 I certify that this memorandum contains 371 words, in compliance with the Local Civil 12 Rules.

14 s/ Jatinder Singh 15 JATINDER SINGH 10412 se 186TH Place 16 Renton, Washington 98055 Phone: (630) 456-5965 17 Email: globetrans@yahoo.com Pro Se Plaintiff 18

24 1 [PROPOSED] ORDER 2 The case is held in abeyance until September 5, 2025. The parties shall submit a status 3 update on or before September 5, 2025. It is so ORDERED.

4 5 DATED this 5th day of March, 2025. 6 A 7 Tana Lin United States District Judge 8

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