FRANCHINI v. BANGOR PUBLISHING CO INC et al

Filing 60

ORDER ON ISSUE OF STAY- IBD's filing re: position as to stay shall be filed by NOON on 4/23/2019; any responses shall be submitted by NOON on 4/25/2019. By JUDGE GEORGE Z. SINGAL. (lrc)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF MAINE
THOMAS FRANCHINI,
Plaintiff,
v.
BANGOR PUBLISHING CO. INC. et al.,

Defendants.

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ORDER ON ISSUE OF STAY

On March 29, 2019, the Court issued an Order on Pending Dispositive Motions in this
action (ECF No. 55). As relevant here, the Court denied Defendant Investor’s Business Daily’s
Special Motion to Dismiss (ECF No. 17) pursuant to Maine’s anti-SLAPP statute, 14 M.R.S.A. §
556, and held that the record was insufficiently developed to rule on the choice-of-law issue
regarding the application of California’s anti-SLAPP statute. Subsequently, on April 12, 2019,
Investor’s Business Daily (IBD) filed a Notice of Appeal from the portion of the Order denying
the Special Motion to Dismiss (ECF No. 58). However, as IBD did not file a concurrent motion
to stay, there remains a question as to whether the Court should or must stay proceedings as to
IBD or any of the other Defendants. Thus, the Court ORDERS IBD to file a motion setting forth
its position as to stay by noon on Tuesday April 23, 2019. To the extent any of the other parties
wish to respond, they shall do so by noon on Thursday April 25, 2019.
SO ORDERED.
/s/ George Z. Singal
United States District Judge
Dated this 16th day of April, 2019.