Reed v. 99 Cents Only Stores LLC ( 2024 )

1 2 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 3 DISTRICT OF NEVADA 4]| Vicki Renee Reed, Case No. 2:23-cv-00836-CDS-EJY 5 Plaintiff Order Staying and Administratively Closing Case 6 V. 7|| 99 Cents Only Stores, LLC, 8 Defendant 9 10 On April 12, 2024, defendant 99 Cents Only Stores, LLC filed a notice indicating that it filed a voluntary petition for relief in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of 12|| Delaware under chapter 11 of title 11 of the United States Code. ECF No. 22. “The automatic stay 13]| is self-executing, effective upon the filing of the bankruptcy petition.” Burton v. Infinity Capital Memt., 862 F.3d 740, 746 (9th Cir. 2017) (citing 11 U.S.C. § 362(a)). “It applies to almost any type 15]| of formal or informal action against the debtor or property of the estate.” Id. at 746-47 16|| (quotation omitted). When chapter 11 relief is sought, the automatic stay of judicial actions against the bankrupt party expires at “the time [that] a discharge is granted or denied.” 11 U.S.C. S 362(c)(2)(A)-(C). 19 It is therefore ordered that this action is STAYED pending resolution of 99 Cents Only 20]| Stores, LLC’s bankruptcy proceedings. The Clerk of Court is instructed to administratively close this case, to be reopened after the conclusion of the bankruptcy proceedings upon written 22} request and application of the parties and order of this court. 23 Dated: April 16, 2024 /, / 24 ye — 25 Cristi ap. Silva 46 United tates District Judge