FEDOROV v. Citizens State Bank

In this petition, Sergei V. Fedorov seeks quashal of the trial court’s duplicate orders denying his motion for stay. Because we conclude that the orders below would result in a material injury that cannot be corrected on appeal and that the lower court departed from the essential requirements of law, we grant the petition.

Fedorov sought a stay on the ground that Citizens State Bank filed an earlier action in Michigan involving the same parties and substantially the same issues, and the Michigan case will decide all or substantially all of the issues in this action. The trial court denied the…