Judge Ezra Stays Discovery Pending a Ruling on Camber’s Rule 12(b)(6) Motion

Conquest v. Camber Corporation, No. SA:13-CV-01108-DAE, slip op. (W.D. Tex. Jan. 13, 2014)(Ezra, J.)

Conquest moved for expedited discovery at the same time as he filed this putative collective Fair Labor Standards Act case. Camber Corporation moved to dismiss under Rule 12(b)(1) and contemporaneously filed a motion to stay discovery under Rule 26(c). The District Court found that there would be “meager harm” in staying discovery at the outset of the case whereas discovery could prove altogether unnecessary if the motion were granted; therefore, the District Court entered a stay that “automatically lifted once the Court rules on defendant’s Motion to Dismiss (Dkt. #14).” Slip op. at 2-4.