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MEMORANDUM AND ORDER RE: STAY PENDING APPEAL
The Court has before it the Motion for Immediate Stay Pending
Appeal [ECF No. 60] filed by Defendant Marilyn Mosby (Mosby) and
hearing is unnecessary.
I. BACKGROUND
against Mosby and Defendant Samuel Cogen (Cogen) but did not
Malicious prosecution,
1 The Memorandum and Order as originally filed [ECF No. 43] did
not state that Officer Caesar Goodson (not a plaintiff) had been
acquitted of all charges in a bench trial.
2
I.e., for False arrest, False imprisonment, Abuse of process,
Conspiracy, Section 1983 Fourteenth Amendment Violations, Section
1983 Fourth Amendment claims based on presentation to the grand jury
(Mosby) and all claims against the State of Maryland.
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Defamation,
II. DISCUSSION
By the instant motion, Mosby seeks to have the Court stay all
an order. See Landis v. N. Am. Co., 299 U.S. 248, 254 (1936)([T]he
economy of time and effort for itself, for counsel, and for
litigants.).
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And the duplicative Maryland Declaration of Rights Article 26
claims.
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Pertinent to injunctions.
2
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The Court reconfirms, but need not herein repeat, its reasons
that it must accept the facts in the pleadings as true, and the Court
immunity questions.
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Appeals for the Fourth Circuit will, in due course, resolve the
pending appeal.
B. Irreparable Injury
523 U.S. 574, 598 (1998), the Court notes that a right to immunity
all of the same claims have been asserted against Cogen, who has not
regard to facts relating to claims against Cogen, she will not suffer
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Only the defamation (false light) claim is unique to Mosby, yet
discovery as to that claim will have substantial overlap with
discovery for the remaining claims.
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because the defendants would remain as fact witnesses for claims not
subject to appeal).
delay the instant case for the duration of the pending appellate
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D. Public Interest
and Cogen shall proceed would not, in any way, impede her ability
would continue).
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IV. CONCLUSION
For the foregoing reasons, the Court finds that Mosby has not
/s/__________
Marvin J. Garbis
United States District Judge